A mother holding her child in her arms; the mother in off-the-shoulder white silk dress, drop pearl earrings and tortoiseshell combs in her fair hair dressed in ringlets, seated in a red upholstered chair holding her child in white dress with blue bows and shoulders, long curling fair hair; draped brown curtain
Details
SIMON JACQUES ROCHARD (ANGLO-FRENCH, 1788-1872)
A mother holding her child in her arms; the mother in off-the-shoulder white silk dress, drop pearl earrings and tortoiseshell combs in her fair hair dressed in ringlets, seated in a red upholstered chair holding her child in white dress with blue bows and shoulders, long curling fair hair; draped brown curtain
signed and dated 'Rochard 1835' (upper right)
rectangular, 4 3/8 x 3 9/16 in. (111 x 90 mm.), ormolu frame with outer foliate border
A mother holding her child in her arms; the mother in off-the-shoulder white silk dress, drop pearl earrings and tortoiseshell combs in her fair hair dressed in ringlets, seated in a red upholstered chair holding her child in white dress with blue bows and shoulders, long curling fair hair; draped brown curtain
signed and dated 'Rochard 1835' (upper right)
rectangular, 4 3/8 x 3 9/16 in. (111 x 90 mm.), ormolu frame with outer foliate border
Provenance
Christie's, South Kensington, London, 14 April 1988, lot 22.
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