Portrait of a Girl
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725 - Paris 1805), attr.
Lot-No. 15
Oil/canvas, 41 x 32,5 cm, min. rest., relined, on the stretcher seal. - French painter. G. was initially taught painting in Lyon, thereafter he studied at what was to become the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. 1755-57 he lived in Italy. In 1768 he became member of the Paris academy. Mus.: Paris (Louvre), St. Petersburg (Eremitage), New York (Metrop. Mus.), Los Angeles (Getty Mus.) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze: Portrait of a Girl
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725 - Paris 1805), attr.
Portrait of a Girl
Lot-No. 15
Oil/canvas, 41 x 32,5 cm, min. rest., relined, on the stretcher seal. - French painter. G. was initially taught painting in Lyon, thereafter he studied at what was to become the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. 1755-57 he lived in Italy. In 1768 he became member of the Paris academy. Mus.: Paris (Louvre), St. Petersburg (Eremitage), New York (Metrop. Mus.), Los Angeles (Getty Mus.) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.