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JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (TOURNUS 1725-1805 PARIS)
Lot 80

JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (TOURNUS 1725-1805 PARIS)

Study of a young woman, seated and resting her face on her left hand

Closed4 July 2023

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JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (TOURNUS 1725-1805 PARIS)
Study of a young woman, seated and resting her face on her left hand
with inscription 'Greuze' (lower left on the mount)
black chalk, brush and grey ink
15.6 x 11.3 cm (6 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

Private collection, UK, since the mid to late 19th Century; by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

The pensive young woman depicted here in a bold brushwork recalls a presumed study for the Melancholy Greuze executed in a similar technique now in The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (inv. ОР-14768; E. Munhall, Greuze the draftsman, exhib. cat., New York, The Frick Collection, 2002, no. 12, ill.). The model's confused state and pose compare to those of the mothers in Greuze's early composition study for Sophronie (in. ОР-14774, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; E. Munhall, op. cit., no. 68, ill.).