A young boy, naked, seated full length on a red cushion, hugging a black dog, landscape beyond; together with a young boy, facing right in pale blue coat, white trousers and frilled cravat, pink powdered curling hair, his left arm resting on a plinth with flowers; foliate background (French School, circa 1790)
Details
CHARLES-JOSEPH CHEVALIER DE CHATEAUBOURG (1758-1837)
A young boy, naked, seated full length on a red cushion, hugging a black dog, landscape beyond; together with a young boy, facing right in pale blue coat, white trousers and frilled cravat, pink powdered curling hair, his left arm resting on a plinth with flowers; foliate background (French School, circa 1790)
2.15/16 in. (74 mm.) diam. and oval, 26 in. (65 mm.) high, gilt-metal mounts, the former within turned wood frame (2)
A young boy, naked, seated full length on a red cushion, hugging a black dog, landscape beyond; together with a young boy, facing right in pale blue coat, white trousers and frilled cravat, pink powdered curling hair, his left arm resting on a plinth with flowers; foliate background (French School, circa 1790)
2.15/16 in. (74 mm.) diam. and oval, 26 in. (65 mm.) high, gilt-metal mounts, the former within turned wood frame (2)
Provenance
the oval miniature: Ritter Rudolf von Gutmann (1880-1966), Vienna.