A young Lady, facing left in low-cut white muslin dress, her brown hair tied to a plait and dressed 'à la noyade'

A miniature by Collas, of 1802, depicting a lady with a similar hairdress, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue L'âge d'or du petit portrait, Bordeaux, Geneva and Paris, 1995/1996, p. 57. For more information on this itinerant artist, see lot 107.