Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Comtesse Mollien as a Child
1790
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 24 5/8 x 19 1/2 in. (62.5 x 49.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Presented by The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, in Memory of William Randolph Hearst
Object Number
1961.7
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1961; William Randolph Hearst Foundation, New York; William Randolph Hearst Collection; purchased in 1920s; formerly M. Ernest Dutilleul, a descendant of the sitter
"Exposition des Cent chefs-d'oeuvre," 1892.
Gertrude Rosenthal, Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists," Oct. 22-Dec. 8, 1968, cat. no. 30, ill. p. 49.
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, "Bicentennial Exhibition, " April 20-June 20, 1976.
Edgar Munhall, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., "Jean-Baptiste Greuze," 1976-1977, no. 106, p. 208., circulated to California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco and Musee des Beaux Arts, Dijon, through July 1977
Gertrude Rosenthal, Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists," Oct. 22-Dec. 8, 1968, cat. no. 30, ill. p. 49.
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, "Bicentennial Exhibition, " April 20-June 20, 1976.
Edgar Munhall, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., "Jean-Baptiste Greuze," 1976-1977, no. 106, p. 208., circulated to California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco and Musee des Beaux Arts, Dijon, through July 1977
Camille Mauclair, "Jean Baptiste Greuze," "LEdition de Art," H. Piazza et Cie, Paris (n.d.) (1908?), catalogue raisonné by J. Martin and CH. Masson, p. 75, no. 1209.
Edgar Munhall, "Greuze's Portrait of Comtesse Mollien Study of a Motif," "The Baltimore Museum of Art News," Vol. ZZVI, No. 1, Fall 1962, pp. 14-23, no. 1, ill. p. 15.
Rosenthal, Gertrude, ed. "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists". Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, pp. 49, ill.
Anita Brookner, "Greuze, The Rise and Fall of an 18th Century Phenomenon," London, 1972, pl. 80.
ed. "Jean-Baptise Greuze", Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1976, p. 208
"The Count Moltke's Two Portraits of the Artist's Daughters by Jean-Baptiste Greuze," Richard Green, London, February 2006, fig. 5.
Inscribed: Verso: label pasted on stretcher [in 18th century handwriting (apparently by the sitter?)], "ce petit portrait est le mien, a l'age de six ans dt demi, fait par Greuze en 1791. Adele Dutilleul, Comtesse Mollien."; and written directly on the wood, ".57757."
