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A young lady, in light blue satin dress with Renaissance-style ruched sleeves and sheer white starched double-frilled lace collar, double-strand pearl necklace with emerald-set clasp about her neck, opera-length double strand of pearls centred by a gold-mounted emerald jewel with pendant crucifix, pearl-set gold tiara in her upswept curling brown hair
Details
LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER (FRENCH, 1772-1830)
A young lady, in light blue satin dress with Renaissance-style ruched sleeves and sheer white starched double-frilled lace collar, double-strand pearl necklace with emerald-set clasp about her neck, opera-length double strand of pearls centred by a gold-mounted emerald jewel with pendant crucifix, pearl-set gold tiara in her upswept curling brown hair
signed and dated 'Autissier pt 1814' (lower right)
on ivory
rectangular, 3 3/8 x 2 7/16 in. (86 x 62 mm.), gilt-metal frame with beading and stamped acanthus border
A young lady, in light blue satin dress with Renaissance-style ruched sleeves and sheer white starched double-frilled lace collar, double-strand pearl necklace with emerald-set clasp about her neck, opera-length double strand of pearls centred by a gold-mounted emerald jewel with pendant crucifix, pearl-set gold tiara in her upswept curling brown hair
signed and dated 'Autissier p
on ivory
rectangular, 3 3/8 x 2 7/16 in. (86 x 62 mm.), gilt-metal frame with beading and stamped acanthus border
Provenance
Christie's, Geneva, 13 November 1990, lot 266.
Exhibited
Brussels, Galerie de la Kredietbank, Autissier et le portrait miniature romantique en Belgique, 1998, pp. 150-151, no. 23, illustrated in colour p. 47.
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