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Head of a Woman

Artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725 - 1805)
Date18th century
MediumRed chalk
DimensionsOverall: 18 × 13 3/8 inches (45.72 × 33.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number61-73
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Exhibition History

Eighteenth-Century European Drawings, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, October 18-November 18, 1979.

Provenance

With Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898), Paris, by October 24, 1898;

Purchased from Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1961.

Published References

Art Quarterly (Summer 1962): 173.

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