MARIE-NICOLAS PONCE-CAMUS (1778-1839)

A young Lady seated on a chair, facing left in low-cut white dress with short sleeves and blue shawl, her dark hair dressed 'à coup de vent'; landscape background

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MARIE-NICOLAS PONCE-CAMUS (1778-1839)
A young Lady seated on a chair, facing left in low-cut white dress with short sleeves and blue shawl, her dark hair dressed 'à coup de vent'; landscape background
signed and dated on the chair 'Ponce Camus an 1800' (lower right)
rectangular, 2 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. (60 x 54 mm.), gilt-metal mount stamped with a palmette freeze
Provenance
Alfred von Strasser-Sánczi, Vienna.
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, Die Bildnisminiatur in Frankreich im XVII., XVIII. und XIX. Jahrhundert, Vienna and Leipzig, 1911, pp. 232-233, 384, illustrated pl. XVII.
M. von Boehn, Miniaturen und Silhouetten, Munich, 1917, p. 92, illustrated p. 103, pl. 100.
U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, Leipzig, 1933, XXVII, p. 239.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 648, described as 'good'.
Exhibited
Troppau (Silesia), Kaiser Franz Josef-Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Ausstellung von Miniaturen, 1905, no. 251.
Berlin, Kaiser Friedrich Museums Verein, 1906.
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, Das gemalte Kleinporträt, 1931, no. 50.

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