ATTRIBUÉ À ETIENNE PARROCEL (1696-1776) Lot n° 10

Young deacon or young priest, according to Guerchin? Blood on paper 45 x 32,5 cm Annotated, bottom left, at the sanguine: J.B. Greuze Annotated, below top margin, upside down, in ink: Barbershop To be compared with several studies of religious faces, in the sanguine style, including Tête de jeune moine (Paris, ENSBA, inv. PM 2540), Tête de jeune moine (Avignon, Musée Calvet, inv. 996.7.36), or Tête d'homme barbu, les yeux levés au ciel (Galerie Michel Descours, TEFAF Maastricht 2018), or Tête d'homme Renaissance, after Raphael (sale Binoche et Gicquello, Paris, 20/11/2015, lot 7, "attributed to"). Provenance : From the attic of the Countess of X... (born around 1930), member of a family of enlightened amateurs, having assiduously attended the distinguished sales of the Hôtel Drouot in the years 1880-1910.