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Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)
Lot 88PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)

Study of an arm (recto); Sketch of a seated female figure (verso)

Fermé2 December 2014

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GBP 4,000

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)
Study of an arm (recto); Sketch of a seated female figure (verso)
red chalk, fragmentary watermark
8 1/3 x 9 1/3 in. (21 x 24 cm.)

with H. Shickman, New York; from whom acquired by the former owner, and thence by descent.

Note du spécialiste

The style of the drawing on the recto, which uses dense hatching to render the shadow, allows the sheet to be dated to the early stage of Greuze's career, around the late 1750s. It can be compared stylistically to the study of A little boy standing which was sold in these Rooms on 4 July 1984, lot 120.