Lot Essay
La fille mal gardée is the title of a well-known ballet first performed in Bordeaux in 1789 with choreography by Dauberval.
A young lady, probably a ballet dancer, holding a piece of paper entitled 'La Fill[e] mal Gardée', facing right in blue spotted white muslin dress with ruffled cuffs and fichu, tortoiseshell comb in her her upswept and curled hair, seated, her right arm resting on a table; wooded background with house beyond
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PIERRE ROCH VIGNERON (1789-1872)
A young lady, probably a ballet dancer, holding a piece of paper entitled 'La Fill[e] mal Gardée', facing right in blue spotted white muslin dress with ruffled cuffs and fichu, tortoiseshell comb in her her upswept and curled hair, seated, her right arm resting on a table; wooded background with house beyond
signed and dated 'P. Vigneron. 1823.' (lower left)
oval, 46 in. (106 mm.) high, fine heavy rectangular ormolu frame with palmette border
A young lady, probably a ballet dancer, holding a piece of paper entitled 'La Fill[e] mal Gardée', facing right in blue spotted white muslin dress with ruffled cuffs and fichu, tortoiseshell comb in her her upswept and curled hair, seated, her right arm resting on a table; wooded background with house beyond
signed and dated 'P. Vigneron. 1823.' (lower left)
oval, 46 in. (106 mm.) high, fine heavy rectangular ormolu frame with palmette border
Provenance
With Gualtiero Schubert, Milan.
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