FOLLOWER OF JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE | PORTRAIT OF AN ACTRESS AS ROZANNE IN BAZAJET, PROBABLY FRANÇOISE-MARIE-ANTOINETTE-JOSEPH SAUEROTTE, CALLED MADEMOISELLE RAUCOURT (1756-1815), BUST LENGTH

M. Munier-Jolain;

By whom sold ("Collection de M. X..."), Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 3 March 1911, lot 33 (as École de J.-B. Greuze);

With Jacques Lenormand and Patrick Dayen, Paris;

From whom acquired 20 March 1985.

P. Hérissey, Les modes, à travers trois siècles, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1911, p. 30, cat. no. 59 (as Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Portrait of Mademoiselle Raucourt de la Cómedie-Française).

This oval painting derives from Greuze's rectangular Portrait of an actress datable to circa 1785 ^[1]. Based on its date of execution, it is likely that the original version of this painting depicts Françoise-Marie-Antoinette-Joseph Sauerotte, called Mademoiselle Raucourt (1756-1815).

^1. Oil on canvas, 53.5 by 46 cm. See anonymous sale ("Property of a Private European Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 27 January 2005, lot 49.