ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE HOIN (FRENCH, 1750-1817)

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ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE HOIN (FRENCH, 1750-1817)
A lady called the Comtesse Diane de Polignac (1746 - after 1818), in décolleté white dress, flowers and peppermint green ribbon in her upswept powdered hair, wearing a pearl necklace and earrings
on ivory
2 1/16 in. (53 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame with split-pearl border
An old paper label on the reverse is inscribed 'La Comtesse Diane de Polignac par Charles Houin. [latter two names effaced] Hall'.

Provenance

Ted Peckham, Esq.; Sotheby's, London, 21 February 1966, lot 69.

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Lot Essay

Comtesse Diane de Polignac was the daughter of Armand XVII, Marquis de Polignac and Diane Adélaïde Zéphirine de Mancini. From 1778 she was First Lady-in-Waiting to Madame Elisabeth of France, sister of King Louis XVI. She was admitted to the inner circle of Queen Marie-Antoinette at the Hameau of Trianon. During the French Revolution she fled France with other members of her family and settled in St Petersburg where she died.

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