Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Femme nue allongé: étude pour "Egine visité par Jupiter" (Reclining Female Nude: Study for "Aegina visited by Jupiter")

Femme nue allongé: étude pour "Egine visité par Jupiter" (Reclining Female Nude: Study for "Aegina visited by Jupiter")

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Femme nue allongé: étude pour "Egine visité par Jupiter" (Reclining Female Nude: Study for "Aegina visited by Jupiter")
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Femme nue allongé: étude pour "Egine visité par Jupiter" (Reclining Female Nude: Study for "Aegina visited by Jupiter")
Datec. 1767
MediumRed chalk on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 12 5/8 × 19 1/2 in. (32.1 × 49.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2008.937
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist; inherited by his daugher Caroline Greuze (d. 1842); [Caroline Greuze sale, Paris, January 25-26, 1843, lot 31]; Marquis Charles de Valori (1820-1883), Paris; M. Bonard; [Wildenstein et Cie., Paris]; William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon, California; Eric H.L. Sexton, Camden, Maine; inherited by the Sexton family; [W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York, by 2008]; purchased by MFAH, 2008.
Exhibition History"Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, December 1, 1976—January 23,1977. Traveled to: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 5—May 1, 1977; Muse´e Des Beaux-arts, Dijon, June 4—July 31, 1977.

"Building the Master Drawings Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 30 —December 21, 2009 [Millennium Corridor, Beck Lower Level].
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in ink, on mount: "Ce dessin qui provient de ma collection de dessins m/a été / donné par Melle Greuze elle-même il est de son père / Cte de Valori"

Inscribed in ink, on mount, in different hand below first inscription: "J'atteste que Je tiens ce dessin . directement, de M.r Le Comte de Valori / comme étant original de Greuze. / en foi de quoi / Bonard"

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