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A girl, facing right in lavender-coloured gauze dress with lace-bordered white underdress, silver braid tied in a bow at corsage, gold comb in her dressed brown hair
Details
ELISE LARRIEU (fl. c. 1805)
A girl, facing right in lavender-coloured gauze dress with lace-bordered white underdress, silver braid tied in a bow at corsage, gold comb in her dressed brown hair
signed and dated twice 'Larrieu. 1805.' (lower left) and 'Larrieu 1805.' (lower right)
oval, 3.7/8 in. (99 mm.) high, cast gilt-bronze mount with metal backing
A girl, facing right in lavender-coloured gauze dress with lace-bordered white underdress, silver braid tied in a bow at corsage, gold comb in her dressed brown hair
signed and dated twice 'Larrieu. 1805.' (lower left) and 'Larrieu 1805.' (lower right)
oval, 3.7/8 in. (99 mm.) high, cast gilt-bronze mount with metal backing
Provenance
John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York; (+) Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 592 (16gns. to GH).
Literature
G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures. The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, London, 1908, IV, p. 90, no. 641.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 469.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 469.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Marigny, Miniatures du XVIe au XIXe sicle , 1985, no. 179.
Paris, Galerie Nicole Kramer, Louvre des Antiquaires, Objets d'une Passion, 1992-1993, no. 5.
Paris, Galerie Nicole Kramer, Louvre des Antiquaires, Objets d'une Passion, 1992-1993, no. 5.