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A young lady holding a garland of pink roses and forget-me-nots forming the initials 'MG', facing right in blue-bordered white silk dress with lace collar and cuffs, long blue sash tied at waist, blue bandeau in her long powdered curling hair; seated in a green upholstered gilt-wood chair beside a gilt-wood table with black marble top strewn with summer flowers
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IGNAZIO PIO VITTORIANO CAMPANA (1744-1786)
A young lady holding a garland of pink roses and forget-me-nots forming the initials 'MG', facing right in blue-bordered white silk dress with lace collar and cuffs, long blue sash tied at waist, blue bandeau in her long powdered curling hair; seated in a green upholstered gilt-wood chair beside a gilt-wood table with black marble top strewn with summer flowers
2.13/16 in. (71 mm.) diam., gold mount, set on the cover of a gold mounted composition bonbonnierère struck with the charge and discharge marks of Julien Alaterre 1768-1775
A young lady holding a garland of pink roses and forget-me-nots forming the initials 'MG', facing right in blue-bordered white silk dress with lace collar and cuffs, long blue sash tied at waist, blue bandeau in her long powdered curling hair; seated in a green upholstered gilt-wood chair beside a gilt-wood table with black marble top strewn with summer flowers
2.13/16 in. (71 mm.) diam., gold mount, set on the cover of a gold mounted composition bonbonnierère struck with the charge and discharge marks of Julien Alaterre 1768-1775
Literature
Exhibition catalogue Bordeaux, Musée des Arts décoratifs/Geneva, Musée de l'Horlogerie/Paris, Musée du Louvre, L'âge d'or du petit portrait, 1995-1996, illustrated in colour p. 21, fig. 7.