JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)

The technique of the drawing can be compared to the artist’s portrait of Denis Diderot at the Morgan Library & Museum (inv. 1958.3; see E. Munhall, Greuze. The Draftsman, exhib. cat., New York, The Frick Collection, and Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002, no. 55, ill.).