Head of a Woman Looking Back Over Her Shoulder

Not on View

Medium

red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 43.2 x 29.3 cm (17 x 11 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1981.50.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (artist) French, 1725 - 1805

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in pen and dark brown ink: 8-No 66. (inventory number of Catherine the Great of Russia)

Provenance

Catherine II, empress of Russia [1729-1796]; Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (L.2699a); State Hermitage Museum; (sale, Leipzig, C. G. Boerner, 4 May 1932, no. 50); Ferrers, London; Robert Abdy, 1962; Mrs. M. Fitzwilliam, until 1980; (sale, London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 9 December 1980, no. 168, ill.); Adolphe Stein; purchased by the National Gallery, 1981.

Associated Names

Abdy, Robert
Boerner, C.G., Mr.
Catherine II of Russia
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Ferrers
Fitzwilliam, M., Mrs.
State Hermitage Museum
Stein, Adolphe

Bibliography

1959: Stein, 7/6-7/18/81, 73.

2009: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 170, fig. 2 (color).