GREUZE Jean - Baptiste (After) 1725 - 1805. The sleeping knitter, also known as the pretty knitter. Black stone and estompe. Glued to sheet. Framed with pen. Old mounting (small ink stains; trace of accident towards the middle). Annotated lower left J. B Greuze. H. 26.6 - L. 21.7 cm. Related to the painting by Jean - Baptiste Greuze from the former Live de Jully collection, exhibited at the 1759 Salon and engraved by Claude Donat Jardinier (Cf. Catalogue of the exhibition Greuze & Diderot, Vie familiale et éducation dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIème siècle; Musée de Clermont - Ferrand, n° 25, pp.42 & 43 - 1984).
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GREUZE Jean - Baptiste (After) 1725 - 1805. The sleeping knitter, also known as the pretty knitter. Black stone and estompe. Glued to sheet. Framed with pen. Old mounting (small ink stains; trace of accident towards the middle). Annotated lower left J. B Greuze. H. 26.6 - L. 21.7 cm. Related to the painting by Jean - Baptiste Greuze from the former Live de Jully collection, exhibited at the 1759 Salon and engraved by Claude Donat Jardinier (Cf. Catalogue of the exhibition Greuze & Diderot, Vie familiale et éducation dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIème siècle; Musée de Clermont - Ferrand, n° 25, pp.42 & 43 - 1984).
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