Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris), La Rêveuse (The Dreamer)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)
La Rêveuse (The Dreamer)
oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 12 7/8 in. (40.2 x 32.7 cm.)

Provenance
Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry (1743-1793); her sale, Remy, Paris, 22 December 1775, part of lot 22.
Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry (1743-1793); her sale, Paillet, Paris, 17 February 1777, part of lot 54.
Charles-Louis de Beauchamp, comte de Merle (1723-1793); his sale, Paillet, Paris, 1 March 1784, lot 24 (1880 livres to Lerouge).
Joseph-Hyacinthe-François de Paule de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil (1740-1817); his sale, Lebrun, Paris, 26 November 1787, lot 97 (1400 livres to Quesnay)
Comtesse Mensdorff.
Prince Dietrichstein, Vienna.
with Wildenstein & Co., New York, where acquired by the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION

Literature
J. Martin and C. Masson, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné de J.-B. Greuze, Paris, 1908, p. 50, no. 756.
M. Breuning, 'Luxurious France', Art Digest, XXII, no. 9, February 1948, p. 19.
E. Munhall, 'Greuze Rediscovered', Art Gallery, XX, no. 1, October-November 1976, illustrated.
S. Preston, 'The Revaluation of Greuze', Apollo, CV, no. 180, February 1977, p. 137, pl. III.
J. Baillio, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1755-1842, Fort Worth, 1982, p. 65, under no. 20, fig. 18.

Exhibited
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, An Exhibition of French Paintings of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, 2 October-7 November 1937, no. 10.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., French Painting of the Eighteenth Century, 21 January-21 February 1948, no. 18.
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805, 1 December 1976-1 May 1977, no. 73.