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JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (TOURNUS 1725-1805 PARIS)

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$ 600 000
Auction dateClassic
17.04.2024 14:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 1177023
Lot 107 | JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (TOURNUS 1725-1805 PARIS)
JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (TOURNUS 1725-1805 PARIS)

Une jeune fille qui pleure la mort de son oiseau (A girl weeping over her dead bird)

signed and dated 'I. GREUZE. 1757' (lower right, on the bird cage)

oil on canvas

27 7⁄8 x 23 ½ in. (70.7 x 59.6 cm.), an oval





Provenance

Sophie Maria Josphine Albina Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin (1868-1914), Vienna, Her Highness the Duchess of Hohenberg, wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and by descent to her son,

Maximilian von Hohenburg (1902-1962), Duke of Hohenburg.

with Galerie Cailleux, Paris, before 1957.

Marcel Leclercq Masurel, Roubaix, France (according to a label on the reverse).

[The Property of a Lady]; Sotheby's, 10 July 1968, lot 93 (to Monckton).

[The Property of a Lady]; Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1971, lot 31.

Dr. Klaus Virch, Kiel.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 January 1987, lot 96, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

C. Mauclair, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Paris, 1905(?), p. 47 and 132, no. 703.

J. Sezmec and J. Adheman, Diderot Salons, I, Oxford, 1957, p. 53, under Salon of 1759, p. 53-54, no. 107.

P. Cailleux, Cailleux 1912-1962, Paris, 1963, n.p., illustrated.

A. Brookner, Greuze: The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon, Greenwich, CT, 1972, p. 100 (as lost).

E. Munhall, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, exhibition catalogue, Hartford, CT, 1976-77, p. 104, under no. 44. note 2.

J. Choillet, Diderot Essais sur la pienture, Salons de 1759, 1761, 1763, ed. G. May, Paris, 1984, p. 101, footnote 45.

E. Munhall, Diderot et l'Art de Boucher à David. Les Salons 1759-1781, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1984, p. 241.

E. Munhall, Greuze the Draftsman, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Frick Collection, and Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002, p. 22.



Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1759, no. 107.
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