ATTRIBUTED TO JEANNE-PHILIBERTE LEDOUX | PORTRAIT OF A LADY, SAID TO BE THE DUCHESSE DE CHOISEUL, WITH A BOY, IN A GARDEN

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ATTRIBUTED TO JEANNE-PHILIBERTE LEDOUX

Paris 1767 - 1840 Belleville

PORTRAIT OF A LADY, SAID TO BE THE DUCHESSE DE CHOISEUL, WITH A BOY, IN A GARDEN

oil on canvas

canvas: 63 by 49¼ in.; 160 by 125 cm.

framed: 76 by 65 in.; 193 by 165.1 cm.

M.A. Couteaux;

His sale, Paris, Me Boussaton, 20-21 April 1863, lot 75 (as Greuze);

With Wildenstein, New York (as Jean-Baptiste Greuze);

Private Foundation, New York (as Jean-Baptiste Greuze);

By whom gifted to the Phoenix Art Museum, 1962 (as Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Greuze);

By whom sold, New York, Christie's East, 26 September 2001, lot 10 (as circle of Jeanne-Philiberte Ledoux);

There acquired.

J. Martin, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Paris, 1904, p. 67, cat no. 1087 (as Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ‘A portrait presumed to be Mme la duchesse de Choiseul');

The Connoisseur Year Book, 1964, no. 1, p. 80;

J. Harithas, Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Phoenix Art Museum Collection, Phoenix 1965, p. 50, cat. no. 62-11 (as Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Greuze).