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A young lady, facing right in loose white dress, purple lined green cloak draped around her shoulders, her powdered hair falling over her left shoulder
Details
ANTOINE-ALEXANDRE MAROLLES (d. 1751/52)
A young lady, facing right in loose white dress, purple lined green cloak draped around her shoulders, her powdered hair falling over her left shoulder
signed 'Marolles Dessinat.r du Roy fecit' (mid-right)
on vellum
oval, 3 in. (89 mm.) high, cast gilt-bronze frame with inner beaded border
A young lady, facing right in loose white dress, purple lined green cloak draped around her shoulders, her powdered hair falling over her left shoulder
signed 'Marolles Dessinat.
on vellum
oval, 3 in. (89 mm.) high, cast gilt-bronze frame with inner beaded border
Provenance
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 19 May 1950, lot 66 (FF13,000).
Frdric Laeuffer Collection, Paris (in 1956).
Jean Blhaut Collection, Bourg-Argental (in 1964).
Frdric Laeuffer Collection, Paris (in 1956).
Jean Blhaut Collection, Bourg-Argental (in 1964).
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, pp. 534 (praised as 'important min. of a lady, of superb quality'), 1004, illustrated IV, pl. 388, no. 792.
Exhibited
Geneva, Muse d'Art et d'Histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 291 (lent by Frdric Laeuffer, Paris).