After Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French 1725-1805- La Rêveuse (The Dreamer); oil on canvas, 45 x 36.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: The present work is a copy after Greuze's original, which sold at Christie's, New York, on 31 October 2017 (lot 30), which had originally been in the collection of Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry (1743-1793). The composition is a typically sensual portrait of a languid female figure, gazing away from the viewer and seemingly lost in thought.

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