The Beautiful Greek Woman

1. Charles Fox, Rutland, England, probably by 1847 [based on the exhibition history of its likely pendant, The Amorous Turk, belonging to the Sarah Blaffer Campbell Foundation, Houston, see Wise 1996]; probably sold 1849 [according to labels formerly on the back of the painting, now in curatorial file]. E. Gimpel and Wildenstein, New York, by 1920 [according to another label formerly on the back of the painting, now in curatorial file]; sold to Delia Spencer Caton, Mrs. Marshall Field I, Washington, D.C., by 1920 (died 1937); by descent to her niece, Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, [according to letters in Art Institute archives]; given to the Art Institute, 1948.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, no. 5
• Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting, May 21 – August 20, 2017.

• Georges Wildenstein, Lancret (Paris, 1924), p. 117, no. 700.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 254.
• Mary Tavener Holmes, “Nicolas Lancret and Genre Themes of the Eighteenth Century”, PhD. dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1986, appendix, p. 27, under no. 26.
• John Ingamells, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Pictures, part 3, French before 1815 (London, 1989), p. 237, under no. P450.
• Christopher Wright, The World’s Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day: A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to their Locations Worldwide (New York, 1991), vol. 1, p. 446, vol. 2, pp. 62, 587.
• Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 86-90, ill.
• Jackall, Yuriko et. al., America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting, Exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art/Lund Humphries), 199, 202, 275, 323, pl. 32

Study of Two Small Girls

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Studies of a Guitar Player in Turkish Costume

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Old Age

Art Institute of Chicago

Head of a Man

Art Institute of Chicago

Study of a Young Woman with a Watering Jug

Art Institute of Chicago

Three Studies of the Head of a Turbaned Black Man

Art Institute of Chicago

Study of a Woman

Art Institute of Chicago

Study: Young Woman Standing Hand on Hip

Art Institute of Chicago

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