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A girl called Mademoiselle Victorine de Chastenay-Lanty, full face in white dress with laced green bodice and fichu, posy of forget-me-nots pinned at corsage, forget-me-nots, blue ribbon and large straw hat in her long powdered curled hair dressed à la conseillère
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LOUIS MARIE SICARDI (1746-1825)
A girl called Mademoiselle Victorine de Chastenay-Lanty, full face in white dress with laced green bodice and fichu, posy of forget-me-nots pinned at corsage, forget-me-nots, blue ribbon and large straw hat in her long powdered curled hair dressed à la conseillère
oval, 2 in. (50 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with scrolling pierced outer silver border studded with diamonds
A girl called Mademoiselle Victorine de Chastenay-Lanty, full face in white dress with laced green bodice and fichu, posy of forget-me-nots pinned at corsage, forget-me-nots, blue ribbon and large straw hat in her long powdered curled hair dressed à la conseillère
oval, 2 in. (50 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with scrolling pierced outer silver border studded with diamonds
Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York; (+) Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 658, as by Antoine Vestier (100gns. to TP).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1976, lot 54, as by Louis-Lié Périn-Salbreux (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-60).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1976, lot 54, as by Louis-Lié Périn-Salbreux (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-60).
Literature
G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, IV, London, 1907, no. 560, p. 7, illustrated pl. CXCI, no. 3.
'In the Auction Rooms - The Morgan Miniatures', The Connoisseur, vol. XCVI, 1935, p. 117, as by Vestier.
'In the Auction Rooms - The Morgan Miniatures', The Connoisseur, vol. XCVI, 1935, p. 117, as by Vestier.
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