Seated Female Nude
c. 1767
Artists
Dimensions
44.5 × 36.7 cm (17 1/2 × 14 7/16 in.)
Provenance
The artist’s estate; his daughter, Caroline Greuze, Paris, by descent; her estate sale, Commendeur, Paris, 25-26 January 1843, lot 29; Jean-Baptiste Delbecq, Ghent; his estate sale, Jacquin, Paris, 20 January 1845 and the following days, lot 104; Émile Straus, Paris (by 1886); his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit (Lair-Dubreuil), Paris, 3-4 June 1929, lot 72; Martin Birnbaum, New York, sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge (by 1929), bequest; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs, inv. no. 1965.290
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