Lot Essay
The backing paper of the miniature is inscribed with an authentification signed by Leo Schidlof.
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A portrait of the artist's wife in blue plaid dress with white underslip, pearls and blue beaded necklace, wearing a gem-set gold comb in her dark curling hair
Details
CHARLES GUILLAUME ALEXANDRE BOURGEOIS (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
A portrait of the artist's wife in blue plaid dress with white underslip, pearls and blue beaded necklace, wearing a gem-set gold comb in her dark curling hair
oval, 5 in. (127 mm.) high, artist's join, rectangular ormolu frame with palmette surmount and four anthemion spandrels
A portrait of the artist's wife in blue plaid dress with white underslip, pearls and blue beaded necklace, wearing a gem-set gold comb in her dark curling hair
oval, 5 in. (127 mm.) high, artist's join, rectangular ormolu frame with palmette surmount and four anthemion spandrels
Provenance
Madame Choune, Paris, in 1912.
Exhibited
St. Petersburg, Institut Français, Exposition Centennale de l'Art Français, 1912, no. 233 (lent by Madame Choune, 24 rue de la Ville-l'Evêque, Paris).
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