Lot Essay
The backing paper dates this miniature of 1805 and identifies the sitters: 'Don de Madame Barthelemy de Montmarie personnages: Me Greiner la d mère Comtesse de Montmarie Gabrielle de Montmarie '.
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The Countess de Montmarie with her mother and her daughter, seated on a sofa in an interior, the grandmother holding a pair of spectacles and a letter inscribed 'Taragonne', the young girl holding a doll
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JEAN-JACQUES KARPFF, called CASIMIR (1770-1829)
The Countess de Montmarie with her mother and her daughter, seated on a sofa in an interior, the grandmother holding a pair of spectacles and a letter inscribed 'Taragonne', the young girl holding a doll
signed in pencil 'Casimir f.t' (lower right)
encre de chine heightened with white bodycolour
rectangular, 6 x 4.5/8 in. (152 x 117 mm.), fine gilt-bronze frame with stamped anthemion border
The Countess de Montmarie with her mother and her daughter, seated on a sofa in an interior, the grandmother holding a pair of spectacles and a letter inscribed 'Taragonne', the young girl holding a doll
signed in pencil 'Casimir f.t' (lower right)
encre de chine heightened with white bodycolour
rectangular, 6 x 4.5/8 in. (152 x 117 mm.), fine gilt-bronze frame with stamped anthemion border