File:Jean-Baptiste Greuze Portrait of a Young Woman, called Mademoiselle Montredon.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 Paris
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
English: Portrait of a young woman
label QS:Lit,"Ritratto di una giovane donna"
label QS:Lhu,"Fiatal nő portréja"
label QS:Lru,"Портрет молодой женщины"
label QS:Lde,"Porträt einer jungen Frau"
label QS:Lpt,"Retrato de uma jovem mulher"
label QS:Lda,"Portræt af en ung kvinde"
label QS:Lsl,"Portret mladenke"
label QS:Lsv,"Porträtt af ett ungt fruntimmer"
label QS:Lpl,"Portret młodej kobiety"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van een jonge vrouw"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait d'une jeune femme"
label QS:Les,"Retrato de una joven"
label QS:Lfi,"Nuoren naisen muotokuva"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a young woman"
label QS:Leo,"Portreto de juna virino"
label QS:Lcs,"Portrét mladé ženy"
label QS:Lmk,"Портрет на млада жена"
, called Mademoiselle Montredon
Date The costume and coiffure of the sitter would suggest a dating in the region of 1783 to 1785 (Sotheby's)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 61.5 cm (24.2 in); width: 51 cm (20 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,61.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,51U174728
Object history

Provenance:

  • Possibly Trotti, Paris, until 1908;
  • Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 23 March 1908, lot 23 (as "Portrait de Madame ***, présumée dame d'honneur de Marie Antoinette"), where acquired by;
  • With Wildenstein, Paris and New York, from 1908;
  • Possibly with Scott & Fowles, New York, before about 1943;
  • Mrs. James B. Haggin, New York, until her death in 1965, when bequeathed to her sister;
  • Mrs. William M. Haupt, New York, by whom gifted to;
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1965, inv. no. 65.242.4.
  • Auction: Sotheby's, New York, 31 January 2013 - 1 February 2013, Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture, lot 110. Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Sold for the Acquisitions Fund [1]
Source/Photographer Sotheby's, Sale N08952 (New York, 2013-01-31–2013-02-01)

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