A girl, bust length, with a green hairband, looking up.

Description

J. BaptisteGreuze
(1725-1805)
A girl, bust length, with a green hairband, looking up.
16 ¾ x 13 3/8 in.
42.5 x 34 cm

Provenance:
George Watson-Taylor, M.P.; Sale, London, 1823 (catalogue entry fixed to the stretcher)

Exhibited:
Cape Town, South African National Gallery, Friend’s Exhibition, 1971, no.28
Cape Town, South African National Gallery, Christmas Exhibition, Old Masters from a Private Collection, Dec 1975, no. 21

Dr. Anita Brookner has advised us that, on the basis of a photograph, she considers the present picture an authograph work by Greuze.

Three other versions of the above composition are known; one at Waddesdon Manor, another formerly with G. Wildenstein, Paris, and a third in a sale at Ball and Graupe, Berlin, 4-5 March 1932.