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Head of a Woman Wearing a Laurel Wreath, Leaning on a Ledge
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Head of a Woman Wearing a Laurel Wreath, Leaning on a Ledge

1790s

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Head of a Woman Wearing a Laurel Wreath, Leaning on a Ledge

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Head of a Woman Wearing a Laurel Wreath, Leaning on a Ledge

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Head of a Woman Wearing a Laurel Wreath, Leaning on a Ledge

1790s

Physical Qualities Black and red chalks with stumping on paper, Sheet: 451 x 327 mm. (17 3/4 x 12 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift from the Winifred M. Gordon Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in Memory of Douglas Huntly Gordon
Object Number 1997.78
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1997; Winifred M. Gordon Foundation, Baltimore; Christie's, 30 January 1997 (Sale 8525), lot 199.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, "France in the Eighteenth Century", Winter 1968, fig. 18, no. 329.

Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "18th Century French Drawings," November 8-December 31, 1995.

Inscribed: lower right verso in graphite: "204"

Markings: CM: Douglas Gordon

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1929
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DANAÉ
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Danaé
1860
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n.d.
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1757
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