Property from a Private Collection, Japan
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
'Le Petit Mathématicien'
Lot Closed
December 5, 03:21 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Japan
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Tournus 1725 - 1805 Paris
'Le Petit Mathématicien'
oil on canvas
unframed: 46.2 x 38.3 cm.; 18 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.
framed: 84 x 76 cm.; 33 x 29 7/8 in.
Probably Count Nicolas Demidoff (1773-1828), Villa San Donato, Florence;
Thence by descent to his son, Anatole N. Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-70), Villa San Donato, Florence;
His sale ('Collections de San Donato'), Paris, Pillet, 26 February 1870, lot 114 ('L'Etude');
Count Potocki, Warsaw;
Prince Yousoupoff, St. Petersburg, before 1905;
With Wildenstein, Buenos Aires, by 1946;
From whom purchased, in 1948, by a private collector;
By whom anonymously sold ('Property of a Family Collection'), New York, Sotheby's, 14 January 1988, lot 212, for $115,500;
Anonymous sale ('The Arts of France Sale'), New York, Christie's, 21 October 1997, lot 88.
Probably J. Martin and C. Masson, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné de Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Suivi de la liste des gravures exécutées d'après ses ouvrages, Paris 1905, p. 35, cat. nos 497 and 498.
ENGRAVED
Ed. Hedouin.
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