JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE
Tournus 1725–1805 Paris
Tête d’enfant portant un bonnet, regardant à gauche
Inscribed, lower left, with the folder and inventory number of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, 2 _ No 48., and stamped, lower left, with the mark of the Imperial Academy (Lugt 2699a); inscribed on the back of the mount, Tête d’enfant pour l’Accordée de Village; also, inscribed on a label on the old mount, in Russian, Грёзь Жань-Батист / 1725-1805
Red chalk
11 ⅝ x 9 ½ inches
296 x 240 mm
Provenance
Ian Ivanovich Betskoy (1704-1795), Saint Petersburg and Paris, acquired directly from the artist and given in 1769 to the
Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg (Lugt 2699a), subsequently transferred in 1924 to the
State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, in 1924
State Hermitage Museum sale: Leipzig, C. G. Boerner, 4 May 1932, lot 51 (as “Kopf eines kleinen Mädchens in einem Häubchen, nach links blinckend. 295 x 240 mm. Rötel.”; bt. Kaiser)
Private collection
PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK