JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE 1725 –1805 Antique French Portrait Oil Painting YOUNG GIRL

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Portrait of a Young Girl

Manner of Jean-Baptiste Greuze

​1725-1805

A very attractive oil painting of a young girl that's beautifully painted. Jean Baptiste Greuze was born in Tournus in 1725, sixth son of a master tiler. Legend has it that the young Greuze convinced his father of his natural aptitude for painting when he showed him a pen-and-ink drawing of Saint James, which his father mistook for an engraving. Greuze was sent to Lyon to study with the commercially successful portrait painter Charles Grandon (1691-1762). Sometime before 1755, Greuze left Lyon for Paris, where he went to pursue his studies at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
 

Age- Late 18th or early 19th Century

Medium- Oils on canvas, re-lined.

Size- 24 by 20 inches approx (610 x 510 mm) including frame, canvas 18 by 15 inches 

Frame- Heavy hand splined gold coloured frame, some knocks, offered free with the painting. 

Condition- Generally dark and a little dirty with some thinner paint areas. The work has been re-lined at some point in the past, some restorations visible. Dark and dirty patches to the skin tones, needs a clean and some attention. 

Signature- Unsigned.

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