LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER (FRANCO-BELGIAN, 1772-1830)

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LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER (FRANCO-BELGIAN, 1772-1830)
A young lady tuning a harp, in décolleté white dress, wearing belt with black and white cameo clasp, embroidered orange Cashmere shawl, dark curling hair set with a hair band, her left hand playing the strings of the harp, a key in her right hand which rests on the instrument
signed 'Autissier pt.' (lower left)
on ivory
rectangular, 4 7/8 x 3½ in. (124 x 90 mm.), gilt-metal mount within wood frame

Provenance

Christie's, Geneva, 12 November 1975, lot 103.

Exhibited

Possibly Salon, Brussels, 1811, no. 13.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A variant of the present miniature (cracked), with a green curtain background and formerly in the collection of Etienne Delaunoy, was exhibited Brussels, Kredietbank, Autissier et le portrait miniature romantique en Belgique, 1998, no. 17, illustrated in colour p. 41.

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