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JEAN RODOLPHE GAUTIER (SWISS, 1764 - AFTER 1817)
A young boy, in blue coat, seated at a desk writing a letter, which begins, 'Pour ma Tante / Jenny', on red upholstered chair; window in background overlooking houses
signed 'Gautier' (lower right)
enamel
2½ in. (64 mm.) diam., set on the cover of a gold-mounted glass bonbonnière, marked Paris 1798-1809, the gold mounts enamelled in blue on a guilloché ground
A young boy, in blue coat, seated at a desk writing a letter, which begins, 'Pour ma Tante / Jenny', on red upholstered chair; window in background overlooking houses
signed 'Gautier' (lower right)
enamel
2½ in. (64 mm.) diam., set on the cover of a gold-mounted glass bonbonnière, marked Paris 1798-1809, the gold mounts enamelled in blue on a guilloché ground
Provenance
With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., in 2000 (as Marie-Madelaine Guimenel 'the Celebrated French Dancer disguised as a boy, writing a letter').
Brought to you by
Katharine Cooke