DrawingsFrench18th century

Seated Female Nude

c. 1767

Artists

Jean-Baptiste GreuzeArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

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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