Details
PETER ADOLF HALL (FRANCO-SWEDISH, 1739-1793)
A girl, in Van Dyck costume of red satin dress with black scalloped neckline and vandycked lace collar, pearl encrusted pendant brooch, pearl necklace, a floral pompon adorning her upswept auburn hair
signed 'Hall' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount set within green velvet surround and gilt-metal frame, with outer pierced border set with silver-metal mounted diamonds, surmounted with elaborate diamond-set scrolling leaves and floral motifs
Provenance
Consul Eugen Gutmann (1840-1925) Collection, Berlin, by 1912.
With The Bachstitz Galleries, The Hague (est. 1921).
Greta Shield Heckett (1899-1976) Collection, Pittsburgh, Pa.; her sale, part I, Sotheby's, Monaco, 4 May 1977, lot 70.
Sotheby's, Zurich, 24 November 1978, lot 216.
Nagel, Stuttgart, 5 March 1979, lot 469.
Literature
O. von Falke, Die Kunstsammlung Eugen Gutmann, Berlin, 1912, no. 311, illustrated pl. 72 (in different frame).
O. von Falke/G. Gronau (ed.), The Bachstitz Gallery Collection, Berlin, s.d. [c. 1921], III, illustrated pl. 83 (in different frame).
Exhibited
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Four Centuries of Portrait Miniatures from the Heckett Collection, 1954, no. 67, illustrated pl. XXVIII.
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