Jean Baptiste Greuze

Provenance

Purchased directly from the artist in 1769 by General Ivan Ivanovitch Betzkoy (1704-1792), President of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg
by whom presented to the Imperial Academy, along with 223 other drawings by Greuze
transferred to the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, 1924
sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 29 April 1931, nr. 110 (sold for 1150 Reichsmark, to Seligmann)
The A. Meyer Collection, Paris, no.34 (according to Witt Library mount)
The Collection of Herbert Fleishhaker (1872-1957), San Francisco in the 1930s and thence by descent to the present owners
Sale Bonhams, London, 9 July 2014, nr. 7

Other works by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Portrait of a young girl, bust-length, in a white dress
19th Century

Psyche Crowning Cupid
c. 1790

The Souvenir

Ariadne

A Schoolboy Sleeping on His Book
1755