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| Head of a Young Boy |
Artist:Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris)
Date:1763
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:18 7/8 x 15 3/8 in. (47.9 x 39.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
At the 1763 Salon Greuze showed the present head study. The head of a boy then belonged to the drawings collector Pierre Jean Mariette (1694–1774) and it was included in his 1775 estate sale under number 24. Relatively rough brushwork—the individual strokes are not disguised—is used throughout. This is deliberate, and typical of character studies made by Greuze from the model as opposed to commissioned portraits.
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