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Portrait of a woman, half length, wearing a gold embroidered white silk dress, set with pearls, a lace chemise, a blue wrap, and pearl earrings, in a feinged stone oval window
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Adriaen Carpentier (1713-1741)
Portrait of a woman, half length, wearing a gold embroidered white silk dress, set with pearls, a lace chemise, a blue wrap, and pearl earrings, in a feinged stone oval window
signed (strengthened) and dated (strengthened) lower right Adriano Carpentier fi 1748
oil on canvas
76.4 x 63.7 cm
in a late 18th century North European gilt composition swept frame, with foliate outer edge, outer scotia, the pierced corners of the cross-hatched and punched swept sides with rocaille cartouches mounted by anthemia flanked by scrolling foliage, the pierced centres with similar rocaille cartouches flanked by scrolling foliage, recessed sanded band, gadrooned sight edge
Portrait of a woman, half length, wearing a gold embroidered white silk dress, set with pearls, a lace chemise, a blue wrap, and pearl earrings, in a feinged stone oval window
signed (strengthened) and dated (strengthened) lower right Adriano Carpentier fi 1748
oil on canvas
76.4 x 63.7 cm
in a late 18th century North European gilt composition swept frame, with foliate outer edge, outer scotia, the pierced corners of the cross-hatched and punched swept sides with rocaille cartouches mounted by anthemia flanked by scrolling foliage, the pierced centres with similar rocaille cartouches flanked by scrolling foliage, recessed sanded band, gadrooned sight edge
Provenance
Mary Lady Leigh