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* Jean-Baptiste Greuze Tournus 1725 - 1805 Paris
Description
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze
- Portrait of an Actress as Roxanne in Bazajet
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Paris, December 28, 1899, La Fierté, to Simon;
Ellamae Storrier-Sterne, California
By whom bequethed to Pasadena Art Museum, California in 1949;
By whom sold (anonymously) New York, PB84, December 6, 1969, lot 139 (as Portrait of Mme Clairon as Roxanne).
Literature
J. Martin and C.Masson, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné de Jean-Baptiste Greuze, in C. Mauclair, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Paris 1906, no. 1159;
Larousse universel en 2 volumes, Paris 1923, vol. I, p. 462, vol. II, p. 753;
E.Munhall, "Quelques Découvertes sur l'oeuvre de Greuze", in La Revue de Louvre, 1966, no. 2, pp. 90-92;
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, Guillaume de Paris/1738-1793, exh. cat. , Marseille 1993, p. 41.
Catalogue Note
We are grateful to Edgar Munhall who, based on photographs, confirms the present painting to be by Greuze and datable to circa 1785.
Based on Mr. Munhall's dating of the picture, it is probable that the sitter is the actress, Françoise-Marie-Antoinette-Joseph Sauerotte, called Mademoiselle Raucourt (1756-1815). Her oriental costume suggests that she is the character Roxanne in Jean Racine's drama Bazajet.