Follower of Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Possibly Sir Algernon Coote, by 1903;
Mrs. J. Willis Dalzell, Pittsburgh;
By whom given to Carnegie Institute, 1929 (Inv. no. 29.2.10).

Carnegie Magazine, June 1929, p. 71 and cover;
Catalogue of Painting Collection, Pittsburgh:  Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1973, p. 70.

Oil on canvas, lined. The edge of the original canvas is visible along the upper edge near the frame. The picture surface is in generally good condition. Under UV light, there are some dots and dashes of inpainting in the background. The sitter's hair has been strengthened and there are thin lines of inpainting to address craquelure in the figures face, chin and neck.
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This composition was reproduced in mezzotint in Sir William Martin Conway, Great Masters 1400-1800: reproductions of the most famous painters down to the year 1800, with an introduction and descriptive text, London 1903 as after a painting by Greuze in the collection of Sir Algernon Coote.