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A young lady, facing right in lace-bordered mottled orange and brown dress, pearl necklace, her dark hair upswept in curls
Details
LOUIS FRANOIS AUBRY (1767-1851)
A young lady, facing right in lace-bordered mottled orange and brown dress, pearl necklace, her dark hair upswept in curls
signed 'Aubry' (mid-left)
oval, 2.13/16 in. (71 mm.) high, rectangular ormolu frame
A young lady, facing right in lace-bordered mottled orange and brown dress, pearl necklace, her dark hair upswept in curls
signed 'Aubry' (mid-left)
oval, 2.13/16 in. (71 mm.) high, rectangular ormolu frame
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Marigny, Miniatures du XVIe au XIXe sicle , 1985, no. 146, illustrated pl. XII.
Paris, Galerie Nicole Kramer, Louvre des Antiquaires, Objets d'une Passion, 1992-1993, no. 11.
Paris, Galerie Nicole Kramer, Louvre des Antiquaires, Objets d'une Passion, 1992-1993, no. 11.
Sale room notice
An old inscription on the reverse states that the sitter is Madame Henri Scheffer, the wife of the painter Henri Scheffer, and that this miniature was presented to Mr Jacques Robert by Madame Renan, granddaughter of the sitter.