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Girl with Birds
Jean-Baptiste Greuzec. 1780/1782
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Girl with Birds
- Creator: Circle of Jean-Baptiste Greuze
- Date Created: c. 1780/1782
- Physical Dimensions: overall (oval): 61.4 x 52 cm (24 3/16 x 20 1/2 in.) framed: 92.7 x 70.5 x 6.4 cm (36 1/2 x 27 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Russian Imperial Family, Pavlovsky Palace, near St. Petersburg, by 1837[1] until at least 1920.[2] William R. Timken [1866-1949], New York; by inheritance to his widow, Lillian Guyer Timken [1881-1959], New York; bequest 1960 to NGA. [1] According to John Smith, _A Catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters..._, 9 vols., London, 1829-1842: 8(1837): 438, no. 147. [2] According to Camille Mauclair, _Jean-Baptiste Greuze_, Paris, 1905: no. 795. See also Louis Réau, "Greuze et la Russie," _L'art et les artistes_, n.s. 7 (1920): 282 n. 2. Both Wildenstein & Co. and NGA curatorial files have an old photograph of the painting with the notation "Glouzonoff (former Mayor Petrograd)" on the back. However, this owner has not been identified, nor is it know when and from whom the Timkens acquired the painting.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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