Details
AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT (1765-1799)
Madame Potain, facing right in claret-coloured silk dress with white gauze fichu, wearing a heart-shaped locket, frilled white muslin bonnet with lavender silk ribbons in her powdered upswept hair
signed 'Ritt' (mid-right)
oval, 2 1/8in. (54mm.) high, set in the cover of a circular gold-mounted tortoiseshell bonbonnière, with the charge and discharge hallmarks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache, Paris, 1778/1779
Provenance
Pierre Rousseau, (born 1750), the sitter's son-in-law.
by family descent.
David David-Weill (1871-1952), Neuilly-sur-Seine, no. 548.
Wildenstein's.
Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London.
Literature
C. Jeannerat and H. Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, no. 162, p. 264, ill. p. 265.
Exhibited
London, Garrard, Exhibition of Important 18th Century & 19th Century Miniatures and Enamels, 1961, no. 162.
