Lot Essay
The backing paper is inscribed 'Madame Boucher née Gérardot, femme de l'orfèvre de Louis XV.
A young Lady called Madame Boucher, facing left, seated on a red-upholstered gilt-wood chair, her long-sleeved light-grey silver dress tied at her waist with a white silk ribbon and bordered with white lace frill, white underslip, a white silk ribbon in her high-piled powdered curly hair
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CLAUDE-ALEXANDRE BÉLIN (flourished 1790-1810)
A young Lady called Madame Boucher, facing left, seated on a red-upholstered gilt-wood chair, her long-sleeved light-grey silver dress tied at her waist with a white silk ribbon and bordered with white lace frill, white underslip, a white silk ribbon in her high-piled powdered curly hair
signed and dated 'Bélin 96' (mid-right)
2 7/8in. (72mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount
A young Lady called Madame Boucher, facing left, seated on a red-upholstered gilt-wood chair, her long-sleeved light-grey silver dress tied at her waist with a white silk ribbon and bordered with white lace frill, white underslip, a white silk ribbon in her high-piled powdered curly hair
signed and dated 'Bélin 96' (mid-right)
2 7/8in. (72mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount