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A young gentleman seated with his left arm draped over the back of a wooden chair, in blue coat, white waistcoat and tied cravat, brown cloak draped over his right shoulder, curling brown hair and sideburns
Details
CLAUDE-JEAN BESSELIÈVRE (FRENCH, B. 1779)
A young gentleman seated with his left arm draped over the back of a wooden chair, in blue coat, white waistcoat and tied cravat, brown cloak draped over his right shoulder, curling brown hair and sideburns
signed 'Besselievre' (lower right)
rectangular, 4¼ x 3¾ in. (108 x 96 mm.), heavy ormolu frame with pierced outer border and scrolling foliage
A young gentleman seated with his left arm draped over the back of a wooden chair, in blue coat, white waistcoat and tied cravat, brown cloak draped over his right shoulder, curling brown hair and sideburns
signed 'Besselievre' (lower right)
rectangular, 4¼ x 3¾ in. (108 x 96 mm.), heavy ormolu frame with pierced outer border and scrolling foliage
Provenance
Professor Dr. Emerich Ullmann (1861-1937), Vienna; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 31 August 1937, lot 27.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, inv. no. 69, M/D 0139; sale, part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 170.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, inv. no. 69, M/D 0139; sale, part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 170.
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, Die Bildnisminiatur in Frankreich im XVII., XVIII. und XIX. Jahrhundert, Vienna/Leipzig, 1911, p. 385, illustrated pl. XXII.
L. Grünstein, Die Sammlung Professor Dr. Emerich Ullmann, Vienna, 1925, p. 55, illustrated pl. 84.
L. Grünstein, Die Sammlung Professor Dr. Emerich Ullmann, Vienna, 1925, p. 55, illustrated pl. 84.
Exhibited
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, Das gemalte Kleinporträt, 1931, no. 439 (lent by Professor Dr. Emerich Ullmann).
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 40 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 40 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.