Lot Essay
Baronne Méchin, née Alexandrine-Marie Raoulx married Alexandre-Edme Méchin (1772-1849), Préfet de l'Aisne.
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Joseph-Marie Bouton (Franco-Spanish, 1768-1832)
A lady, possibly Baronne Méchin, née Alexandrine-Marie Raoulx (b.c. 1780-1864), in white dress and purple shawl, seated in an interior
Signed ‘Bouton.’ (mid-right)
On ivory
80 mm. diam., octagonal silver-gilt easel-stand frame, engraved ‘par Ch. M. Bouton’ on the reverse
A lady, possibly Baronne Méchin, née Alexandrine-Marie Raoulx (b.c. 1780-1864), in white dress and purple shawl, seated in an interior
Signed ‘Bouton.’ (mid-right)
On ivory
80 mm. diam., octagonal silver-gilt easel-stand frame, engraved ‘par Ch. M. Bouton’ on the reverse
Provenance
Ney Prince de la Moskowa (1870-1928) Collection, Paris; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, room 11, 28-29 May 1929, lot 179.
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 29 August 1959 (inv. nos. MD/0675 and 99).
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 29 August 1959 (inv. nos. MD/0675 and 99).
Literature
Exhibition catalogue Toulouse, 1960, p. 33, no. XCII (as a supposed portrait of la baronne Méchin).
Martin-Bouton 1962, illustrated p. 249, fig. 10.
Schidlof 1964, I, p. 104 (described as ‘good’) illustrated II, p. 923, illustrated III, pl. 91, fig. 158.
Martin-Bouton 1962, illustrated p. 249, fig. 10.
Schidlof 1964, I, p. 104 (described as ‘good’) illustrated II, p. 923, illustrated III, pl. 91, fig. 158.
Exhibited
Brussels 1912, no. 615 (lent by Prince de la Moskowa and erroneously attributed to Charles Bouton).
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