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A fine miniature of a young lady, facing right in lace-bordered cream silk dress with turquoise bows at elbows and cuffs, turquoise lace choker and turquoise ribbon in her powdered dressed hair; holding a black mask in her left hand and a white handkerchief in her right hand, leaning over a green covered ledge
Details
                                        
                                            FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1750 
A fine miniature of a young lady, facing right in lace-bordered cream silk dress with turquoise bows at elbows and cuffs, turquoise lace choker and turquoise ribbon in her powdered dressed hair; holding a black mask in her left hand and a white handkerchief in her right hand, leaning over a green covered ledge
rectangular, 2.7/8 x 2.5/8 in. (47 x 66 mm.), gilt-bronze frame with inner beaded border
                                        
                                    A fine miniature of a young lady, facing right in lace-bordered cream silk dress with turquoise bows at elbows and cuffs, turquoise lace choker and turquoise ribbon in her powdered dressed hair; holding a black mask in her left hand and a white handkerchief in her right hand, leaning over a green covered ledge
rectangular, 2.7/8 x 2.5/8 in. (47 x 66 mm.), gilt-bronze frame with inner beaded border
Provenance
                                        
                                            Madame Levaigneur Collection, Paris; Htel Drouot, Paris, 1 May 1912, lot 174 (1,520 Gold Francs to Madame Levillain).