Lot 206
  • 206

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze
  • A young woman with a birdcage
  • bears a red wax seal on the stretcher
    bears an inscription on reverse: Galerie San Donato
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Count Anatole N. Demidoff, 1st Prince of San Donato (1813-1870);
His sale, Paris, April 2, 1869, no. 8 (sold 4,500 French francs).

Catalogue Note

A black chalk sketch executed by Jean-Baptiste Greuze and held in Besancon, Beaux-Arts Museum (Inv. No. D1568), can be considered as a preparatory study for the present painting.