JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (TOURNUS 1725-1805 PARIS) Une jeune fille qui pleur...

JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (TOURNUS 1725-1805 PARIS)
Une jeune fille qui pleure la mort de son oiseau (A girl weeping over her dead bird)
signed and dated 'I. GREUZE. 1757' (lower right, on the bird cage)
oil on canvas, oval
27 7⁄8 x 23 ½ in. (70.7 x 59.6 cm.)

Provenance
Sophie Maria Josphine Albina Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin (1868-1914), Vienna, Her Highness the Duchess of Hohenberg, wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and by descent to her son,
Maximilian von Hohenburg (1902-1962), Duke of Hohenburg.
with Galerie Cailleux, Paris, before 1957.
Marcel Leclercq Masurel, Roubaix, France (according to a label on the reverse).
[The Property of a Lady]; Sotheby's, 10 July 1968, lot 93 (to Monckton).
[The Property of a Lady]; Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1971, lot 31.
Dr. Klaus Virch, Kiel.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 January 1987, lot 96, where acquired by the present owner.