File:Jean-Baptiste Greuze Portrait of a Young Boy.jpg

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Artist
Jean-Baptiste Greuze  (1725–1805)  wikidata:Q347139
 
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Description French painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 21 August 1725 Edit this at Wikidata 21 March 1805 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Tournus Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1750 Edit this at Wikidata–1805 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q347139
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description

Portrait of a young boy. oil on canvas, 37.8 by 32 cm.

Provenance:

  • Private Collection, Russia
  • The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
  • Sold by the museum at Rudolph Lepke, 6-7 November 1928, lot 382
  • Dr. Victor Simon collection, Paris, by 1943;
  • Tony Mayer, Paris;
  • His sale, Paris 3 December 1957, lot 73;
  • With Wildenstein Arte S.A, Buenos Aires
  • Anita Thyssen collection, Berlin and later Argentina
  • Thence by descent in the family from whom acquired by the present owner.
Date 1750s
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
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Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 37.8 cm (14.8 in); width: 32 cm (12.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,37.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,32U174728
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Source/Photographer Sotheby's, Sale N08952 (New York, 2013-01-31–2013-02-01)

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