Jean Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725 - Paris 1805)
Head of a girl
Description:
red chalk386 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. XIVSOLD
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