FJK 057

Greuze Jean-Baptiste (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris)

Dog Looking Up

Date unknown
11 17/64 × 16 21/32 in. (286 × 423 mm)

Medium
Black and red chalk on wove paper laid down on vellum

Collector’s mark “Charles Eggimann” bottom left (Lugt 530)

Origin

Charles Eggimann Collection, Geneva-Paris
Sale, Christie’s, London, July 1st, 1997, no. 162
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5440
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

DÜCKERS Alexander, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 404, ill.

RYLANDS Philip, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 403, ill.

Notes

The present drawing is related, in reverse, to the dog on the right of Le paralytique in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg. A. Brookner, Greuze, The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon, London, 1972, fig. 35.

Christie’s, Old Master Drawings, London July 1997

Request for information/loan

The Jan Krugier Foundation is devoted to increasing the impact of the collection of drawings through regular loans to major exhibitions. Loan applications should include a complete presentation of the project.