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Drawn to Life – Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Study of hands

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Drawn to Life – Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection


Jean-Baptiste Greuze

(Tournus 1725 - 1805 Paris)

Study of hands


Red chalk, within brown ink framing lines

329 by 250 mm

Garnier Collection;

Kavaisson Collection;

Dr. G. Lapone, New York;

with Delius Gallery, date unknown;

Curtis O. Baer (1898-1977), New York (L.3366);

sale, London, Christie's, 5 July 2011, lot 73,

where acquired by present owner.

Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer, 1958, no. 41, pp. 50-51;

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery; Los Angeles, Frederick Wight Gallery, University of California, Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, 1985-7, no. 63, p. 114.