Details
CHARLES-NICOLAS GUILLON, both signed, circa 1790/1795
A fine pair of miniatures depicting a mother with her daughter, and a seated gentleman, the lady with curled long brown hair, in blue dress with blue stripes, the young girl wearing a frill-bordered white dress, both seated on a bordeaux-red covered gilt-wood sopha, the gentleman wearing a gold-figured blue naval uniform with red collar and cuffs, seated at his secrétaire-à-abattant and writing a letter -- both 71 mm diam., fine heavy gilt-bronze frames. (2)
A fine pair of miniatures depicting a mother with her daughter, and a seated gentleman, the lady with curled long brown hair, in blue dress with blue stripes, the young girl wearing a frill-bordered white dress, both seated on a bordeaux-red covered gilt-wood sopha, the gentleman wearing a gold-figured blue naval uniform with red collar and cuffs, seated at his secrétaire-à-abattant and writing a letter -- both 71 mm diam., fine heavy gilt-bronze frames. (2)
Provenance
Berthe Fontana Collection, sold Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 15 March 1922, lot 36.