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Pierre-Adolphe Hall (Franco-Swedish, 1739-1793)
A lady in low-cut white dress, in a woodland landscape
On ivory
66 mm. diam., gilt-metal mount, on the cover of a tortoiseshell-lined lacquer bonbonnière
A lady in low-cut white dress, in a woodland landscape
On ivory
66 mm. diam., gilt-metal mount, on the cover of a tortoiseshell-lined lacquer bonbonnière
Provenance
Madame de Polès Collection; her sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Maître Lair-Dubreuil, Paris, 22 June 1927, lot 35 (then in a giltwood frame), reoffered in the sale of her estate entitled Succession de Madame de Polès, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Maître Ader, 18 November 1936, lot 121.
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in Paris, 10 May 1939 (inv. nos. MD/0184 and 275).
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in Paris, 10 May 1939 (inv. nos. MD/0184 and 275).
Literature
Rieben 1951; Werner 1951; Rieben 1952, illustrated in colour pl. IX.
Exhibited
Zurich 1955, no. 374.
Geneva 1956, no. 201.
Geneva 1956, no. 201.
Special notice
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