A cleric, facing left in black robes and white bands, full bottomed powdered curling wig

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ALEXANDRE DE LA CHANA (1703-1765)
A cleric, facing left in black robes and white bands, full bottomed powdered curling wig
signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'Alex. De La Chana Pinxit 1739'
enamel on copper
oval, 1¾ in. (44 mm.) high, gilt-lead frame with outer scrolling foliate border

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Lot Essay

Enamels by this Geneva artist are extremely rare. Apart from the group in the Musée de l'Horlogerie et de l'Emaillerie, Geneva, two specimen, both dated 1740, are known, one in a Belgian private collection and one in the Museum Briner und Kern, Winterthur. A portrait of a cleric, dated 1741, is in the Louvre.

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