About the Artwork
Boy with an Apple
18th century
Jean Baptiste Greuze
1725-1805
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 15 3/4 × 12 3/4 inches (40 × 32.4 cm) Framed: 26 5/8 × 20 3/4 × 2 3/8 inches (67.6 × 52.7 × 6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
53.365
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
possibly V. L. Narischkine. possibly (The Hermitage, St. Petersburg [Leningrad], Russia). possibly (Van Diemen & Co., Berlin, Germany). April 3-5, 1930, sold by Emanuel Naidis through (William H. Day Galleries, New York, New York, USA), lot 278. 1931, (Van Diemen & Co., New York, New York, USA)
purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1953-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Heil, W. Manuscript Catalogue of the Whitcomb collection. 1931, p 46.
Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture given by Edgar B. Whitcomb and Anna Scripps Whitcomb to The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, p. 81, (ill.) p. 80 [also exhibited 20 April - 20 September].
Davis, M. National Gallery Catalogues, French School, 2nd revised ed. London, 1957, p. 109 [mentioned as version of no. 1020].
Freedom Festival: French Master Works. Detroit, Cobo Hall, 30 June-7 July 1964 [checklist?].
Parker, Clifford Stetson. Lectures culturelles françaises. New York, 1966, p. 367.
Small Paintings from Famous Collections. Exh. cat [?], Taft Museum. Cincinnati, April 4-June 7, 1981 [cat.? checklist?].
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Jean Baptiste Greuze, Boy with an Apple, 18th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 53.365.
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