Jean-Baptiste Greuze
(Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)

Head of a Girl
oil on canvas
16 3/4 by 13 1/2 in (42.6 by 34.3 cm)

This painting is known in three other painted versions (one, Waddesdon Manor; another formerly with Georges Wildenstein, Paris; a third in a sale at Ball & Graupe, Berlin, 26-27 February 1932, lot 12). A red chalk drawing, visually similar, appeared in the sale of Christie's, Old Master Drawings, 30 January, 1997, lot 198.

PROVENANCE:

George Watson Taylor, M.P., Cavendish Square, London, 1832 (Catalogue Entry Attached To The Stretcher).

Dr. R.E. Hemphill, 1971

EXHIBITED:

Cape Town, South African National Gallery, “Friends Exhibition”, 1971, no. 28.

Cape Town, South African National Gallery, “Christmas Exhibition: Old Masters From A Private Collection”, December, 1975, no.21