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A young lady, full face in black gauze dress sprigged with flowers, white underdress, black belt with gem-set clasps, pearl bracelet, pearl necklace with coral, coral earrings, gold and coral headband and white mantilla in her upswept curled hair, leaning on a stone plinth with a lion's head spouting water, the ledge covered with a cashmere stole; landscape background
Details
CHARLES-PIERRE CIOR (1769-1840)
A young lady, full face in black gauze dress sprigged with flowers, white underdress, black belt with gem-set clasps, pearl bracelet, pearl necklace with coral, coral earrings, gold and coral headband and white mantilla in her upswept curled hair, leaning on a stone plinth with a lion's head spouting water, the ledge covered with a cashmere stole; landscape background
signed 'Cior. p.' (lower right)
octagonal, 2.15/16 in. (74 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within a rectangular lemonwood panel
A young lady, full face in black gauze dress sprigged with flowers, white underdress, black belt with gem-set clasps, pearl bracelet, pearl necklace with coral, coral earrings, gold and coral headband and white mantilla in her upswept curled hair, leaning on a stone plinth with a lion's head spouting water, the ledge covered with a cashmere stole; landscape background
signed 'Cior. p.' (lower right)
octagonal, 2.15/16 in. (74 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within a rectangular lemonwood panel
Provenance
Gnther Muthmann, Wuppertal; Sotheby's, Zurich, 13 November 1979, lot 130 (SF 4,500).