Details

SOPHIE CLÉMENCE DELACAZETTE (FRENCH, 1774-1854)
A young lady, in black dress with white ruff, a pearl-set comb in her brown hair
signed 'S^{e<\sup>.... Clc<\sup>e<\sup> Delacazette' (mid-left)
on ivory
oval, 3.3/8 in. (86 mm.) high, stamped gilt-metal mount within a rectangular wooden frame}

Provenance

Mlle Féret, Paris.
Paris, Hôtel Drouot, room 1, 20 December 1971, lot 96.
Private Collection, Munich.
With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., in 1999.

Literature

L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 940, illustrated III, pl. 159, no. 295.

Special notice

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