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SWISS SCHOOL
Lot 97

SWISS SCHOOL

A young lady formerly called Germaine de Staël, leaning on her right elbow on a stone plinth with her right hand raised to her face, in white dress with black sash and gold set gem brooch pinned at corsage, gold bracelets on each wrist, pink stole draped over her left shoulder, gold necklace with drop pearls, gold-bordered white turban in her curling powdered hair pinned with large gold and red stone clasp; stone vase with foliage, foliage and sky and cloud background

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GBP 5,760

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SWISS SCHOOL
A young lady formerly called Germaine de Staël, leaning on her right elbow on a stone plinth with her right hand raised to her face, in white dress with black sash and gold set gem brooch pinned at corsage, gold bracelets on each wrist, pink stole draped over her left shoulder, gold necklace with drop pearls, gold-bordered white turban in her curling powdered hair pinned with large gold and red stone clasp; stone vase with foliage, foliage and sky and cloud background
enamel on gold
2 7/8 in. (74 mm.) diam., rectangular gilt-metal frame

Professor Dr. Emerich Ullmann (1861-1937), Vienna; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 31 August - 1 September 1937, lot 315.

Specialist note

The traditional identification of the sitter as Germaine de Staël née Necker cannot be substantiated. The composition of this portrait is close to the works of Joseph Grassi.