IGNAZIO-PIO-VITTORIANO CAMPANA (FRANCO-ITALIAN, 1744-1786)

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IGNAZIO-PIO-VITTORIANO CAMPANA (FRANCO-ITALIAN, 1744-1786)
A young lady disguised as a milkmaid, in light grey dress, open to reveal white corset with blue strings, white mob cap over her curled hair dressed in ringlets, her left arm resting on a milk jug, a metal vessel in her left hand
on ivory
2 11/16 in. (68 mm.) diam., later gilt-brass frame with beaded inner border

Provenance

Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 1 September 1938, lot 948.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen; part III, Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1986, lot 57.
Private Collection, Vienna.
Sotheby's, Geneva, 17 May 1994, lot 15.

Exhibited

Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 65 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The inventory of Campana's estate of 29 October 1786 (J.-J. Guiffrey, 'Scellés et inventaires d'artistes. CCCLXIV. Ignace-Jean-Victor Campana', Nouvelles Archives de l'Art français, 2nd series, vol. VI, 1885, p. 196) lists 'Un portrait en miniature trois quarts, de forme ronde, pour dessus de tabatière, représentant une femme vêtue en laitière tenant en ses mains un pot au lait, led. portrait sous son cristal', which would correspond to the present miniature.

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