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A young lady, facing right in low-cut light green dress with white lace bordered gauze fichu and pink bow at corsage, her grey-powdered upswept hair dressed in curls and adorned with flowers, white lace and a pink ribbon
Details
ANTOINE VESTIER (1740-1824)
A young lady, facing right in low-cut light green dress with white lace bordered gauze fichu and pink bow at corsage, her grey-powdered upswept hair dressed in curls and adorned with flowers, white lace and a pink ribbon
signed and dated 'Vestier fecit 1777/82' (mid-right)
oval, 1 in. (45 mm.) high, gold mount stamped with a wavescroll border, set on the front side of the base of a white Louis XVI carnet-de-bal with wavescroll-bordered gold mounts by the Parisian goldsmith Guillaume-Denis Delamotte (1724 - after 1793), marked, Paris 1776/1777, with the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache (3 in. 83 mm. high)
A young lady, facing right in low-cut light green dress with white lace bordered gauze fichu and pink bow at corsage, her grey-powdered upswept hair dressed in curls and adorned with flowers, white lace and a pink ribbon
signed and dated 'Vestier fecit 1777/82' (mid-right)
oval, 1 in. (45 mm.) high, gold mount stamped with a wavescroll border, set on the front side of the base of a white Louis XVI carnet-de-bal with wavescroll-bordered gold mounts by the Parisian goldsmith Guillaume-Denis Delamotte (1724 - after 1793), marked, Paris 1776/1777, with the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache (3 in. 83 mm. high)
Provenance
J. H. Fitz-Henry Collection, London/Paris; (+) Htel Drouot, Paris, 18-21 February 1914, lot 254 (1,100 Gold Francs to Frdric Laeuffer).
Frdric Laeuffer Collection, Paris.
Frdric Laeuffer Collection, Paris.
Literature
P.-A. Lemoisne, 'Le portrait miniature en France', in L'exposition de la miniature Bruxelles en 1912, Brussels/Paris, 1913, p. 65 (described as 'joli').
C. Mauclair, La miniature du XVIIIe sicle. Portraits de femmes , Paris, 1913, illustrated p. 31.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 846 (praised as 'a nice min. of beautiful quality').
A.-M. Passez, Antoine Vestier, Paris, 1989, p. 286, no. 192, illustrated p. 287.
C. Mauclair, La miniature du XVIII
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 846 (praised as 'a nice min. of beautiful quality').
A.-M. Passez, Antoine Vestier, Paris, 1989, p. 286, no. 192, illustrated p. 287.
Exhibited
Paris, Bibliothque nationale, Oeuvres d'art du XVIIIe sicle , 1906, 2nd supplement, no. 71 (lent by Mr Fitz-Henry).
Paris, Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, on a temporary loan, no. 22.
Brussels, Htel Goffinet, Exposition de la miniature, 1912, no. 1158 (lent by Mr Fitz-Henry).
Paris, Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, on a temporary loan, no. 22.
Brussels, Htel Goffinet, Exposition de la miniature, 1912, no. 1158 (lent by Mr Fitz-Henry).