FRENCH SCHOOL 18thC - FIGURE STUDIES ATTR. GREUZE - FOUR INK DRAWINGS




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Information:
Reference Number: Avaluer:1225980Region of Origin: Europe
Date of Creation: Pre-1800Artist: Attr. Greuze
Year: Ca. 1760-1770Style: Realism
Features: Unsigned, Unframed, Old master drawing, Antique drawing, French drawingListed By: Dealer or Reseller
Subject: FiguresQuantity Type: Four drawings on one sheet
Originality: OriginalMedium: Ink
Original Description:
From a find in a collection in Aix-en-Provence (South of France), is this superb small set of figure studies.
The drawing, all executed in pen and ink on laid paper (only the central drawing is also hightened with white watercolor), all depicts a variety of figure studies, preparatory for larger scale paintings.

Authorship : the drawing is from the French School.  A collegue from Aix suggested an attribution to Jean-Baptiste Greuze.  Research learned me that Greuze ...made quite some of these type of small scetches (such as "Study of a standing woman"), mostly first ideas for further projects.  This way, I think that this attribution is defendable, allthough further research should be done to support our opinion.
JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (Tournus 1725 - Paris 1805) : After training in Lyon, Jean-Baptiste Greuze arrived in Paris in 1750, where he sporadically attended the Académie Royale.  His 1755 Salon debut was a triumph, but the acclamation turned his head.  He antagonized everyone, including fellow artists, which later proved disastrous.
While retaining the clear, bright colors and lighter attitude of eighteenth-century painting, Greuze introduced a Dutch-influenced realism into French genre painting and portraiture.  Through vivid facial expressions and dramatic gestures, Greuze's moralizing paintings exemplified the new idea that painting should relate to life.  They captured the details of settings and costumes, spoke to the heart, educated viewers, and aimed to make them virtuous.
In 1769 Académie members refused Greuze membership as a history painter, accepting him only in the lower category of genre, perhaps partly from ill will.  Humiliated, he withdrew from public exhibitions completely.  During the 1770s Greuze enjoyed a widespread reputation and engravings after his paintings were widely distributed, but his wife embezzled most of the proceeds.  By the 1780s, Neoclassicism curtailed his popularity and his quality declined. After enduring poverty and neglect, he died unnoticed, having outlived his time and his reputation.
Period : ca. 1760-1770.
Size : 9x7, 8cm (central), 5x3, 2cm (right), 6x3, 5cm (left), 3, 4x3, 9cm (below).
Provenance :
All four are bearing an unidentified collector's mark (Lugt 4582, possibly collection prince W. Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff (in 1925, march 27, Amsterdam, a drawing from this collection was sold, having this unidentified mark).
Condition : Good.  Some scattered dirt throughout.  All attached to the same paper support by the topside.  White watercolor central drawing oxydated.  Right drawing : bottom side left : one tiny tear.  Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 17$.  Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°).  Combined shipping available.



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