FJK 057
Greuze Jean-Baptiste (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris)
Dog Looking Up
Date unknown
11 17/64 × 16 21/32 in. (286 × 423 mm)
Medium
Black and red chalk on wove paper laid down on vellum
Collector’s mark “Charles Eggimann” bottom left (Lugt 530)
Origin
Charles Eggimann Collection, Geneva-Paris
Sale, Christie’s, London, July 1st, 1997, no. 162
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5440
Jan Krugier Foundation
Bibliography
DÜCKERS Alexander, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 404, ill.
RYLANDS Philip, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 403, ill.
Notes
The present drawing is related, in reverse, to the dog on the right of Le paralytique in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg. A. Brookner, Greuze, The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon, London, 1972, fig. 35.
Christie’s, Old Master Drawings, London July 1997
Request for information/loan
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