Old Masters
Old Masters
Property of a European Private Collector, Sold Without Reserve
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June 11, 04:09 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Property of a European Private Collector, Sold Without Reserve
FOLLOWER OF JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE
PORTRAIT OF AN ACTRESS AS ROZANNE IN BAZAJET, PROBABLY FRANÇOISE-MARIE-ANTOINETTE-JOSEPH SAUEROTTE, CALLED MADEMOISELLE RAUCOURT (1756-1815), BUST LENGTH
oil on canvas, an oval
canvas: 23¼ by 19½ in.; 59.1 by 49.5 cm.
framed: 25 by 21¼ in.; 63.5 by 54 cm.
M. Munier-Jolain;
By whom sold ("Collection de M. X..."), Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 3 March 1911, lot 33 (as École de J.-B. Greuze);
With Jacques Lenormand and Patrick Dayen, Paris;
From whom acquired, 20 March 1985.
P. Hérissey, Les modes, à travers trois siècles, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1911, p. 30, cat. no. 59 (as Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Portrait of Mademoiselle Raucourt de la Cómedie-Française).
Bagatelle, Palais du Domaine, Les modes, à travers trois siècles, 15 May - 15 July 1911, no. 59 (as Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Portrait of Mademoiselle Raucourt de la Cómedie-Française).
This painting derives from Greuze's Portrait of an actress datable to circa 1785.1 That version may depict Françoise-Marie-Antoinette-Joseph Sauerotte, called Mademoiselle Raucourt (1756-1815).
1. Oil on canvas, 53.5 by 46 cm. See anonymous sale ("Property of a Private European Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 27 January 2005, lot 49.