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Portrait of a girl feeding two birds in a nest on a ledge before her; and Portrait of a girl with a pearl necklace revealing a letter from her décolletage
Details
French school, 18th century
Portrait of a girl feeding two birds in a nest on a ledge before her; and Portrait of a girl with a pearl necklace revealing a letter from her décolletage
both indistinctly signed and dated '1770' (lower right)
pastel on paper
each 15 ½ x 12 ½ in. (39.3 x 31.7 cm.)
(2)a pair
Portrait of a girl feeding two birds in a nest on a ledge before her; and Portrait of a girl with a pearl necklace revealing a letter from her décolletage
both indistinctly signed and dated '1770' (lower right)
pastel on paper
each 15 ½ x 12 ½ in. (39.3 x 31.7 cm.)
(2)a pair
Provenance
Anonymous sale [Greville Douglas]; Christie's London, 19 May 1904, lot 25, as 'Desperrieres, 1779', where purchased by F. Lawson for 20gns.