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DAY & FABER master drawings

    Jean Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725 - Paris 1805)

    Head of a girl

    Description:

    red chalk
    386 x 301 mm.

    Provenance:

    Henry S. Reitlinger; Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 14th April, 1954, lot 311; Lansing W. Thoms Collection, St. Louis, Missouri; by descent to a private collection Missouri, until 2003

    Literature

    Pierre Rosenberg, ‘French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections’, Exhibition Catalogue 1972, no. 58, p. 164, pl. XIV

    SOLD

    Exhibitions

    ‘A Galaxy of Treasures from Saint Louis Collections’, Saint Louis, 1961 (illustrated in the catalogue which is unnumbered); ‘French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections’, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, (Sept.-Oct., 1972), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, (Nov.-Dec., 1972), California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, (Jan.-Mar., 1973) and New York Cultural Center, (Apr.-May, 1973), no. 58

    Head of a girl