JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (1725-1805) Callisto Canvas Signed upper right JB Greuze and dated 1760. On the back, several labels including one from the Wildenstein gallery; a N° 1231 /d, a label from Pitt and Scott Paris Londres (mention manuscrite Rue saint Florentin 19.3.64). Height 46.5 cm - Width 38 cm Provenance : - Collection of the painter Jean Georges Wille (1715-1808) ; - N°50 sale, December 5, 1859 (according to Mauclair); - Jong sale, London, February 10, 1862, 3,000 francs (Laneuville, expert) (according to Mauclair); - Collection of the Prince of Bavaria (probably Karl Theodor, 1839-1909); - Graupe Berlin sale September 26, 1930 (A collection of paintings by the princely families of southern Germany) nos. 26 and 27 ; - Galerie Wildenstein, New York and London, 1938; - Sale New York (according to Frick Art Référence Library), Sotheby's Parke Bernet New York The Estate of Mrs Orme Wilson: March 25-26, 1949, lot 326 ; - Sale Paris, Drouot Rive Gauche, July 11, 1978, Me Ferri, with Diane (under previous no.); acquired at this sale by the current owners. Exhibition: Salon of 1761, under the title Une Tête de Nymphe de Diane (according to Mauclair, could be the motif that passed at the sale of 11 prairial an VII, 252 francs"). Engraved by Gaillard with the mention "Tiré du cabinet de M. Wille". Bibliography: Camille Mauclair, H. Piazza et Cie, Jean Baptiste Greuze, Paris, 1908, no. 439, Calisto. Two other versions of this painting exist: one was in the Galerie Cailleux in 1981, the other is in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (perhaps a copy?). A copy by a follower of Greuze was sold by Me Osenat on 27/01/2024 (lot 137).