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A young lady, facing right in white dress with puffed sleeves, fichu caught in her blue sash, turquoise stole draped over her left shoulder, her brown hair tightly curled and upswept in an Apollo knot
Details
SOPHIE CLÉMENCE DELACAZETTE (1774-1854)
A young lady, facing right in white dress with puffed sleeves, fichu caught in her blue sash, turquoise stole draped over her left shoulder, her brown hair tightly curled and upswept in an Apollo knot
signed and dated 'Se- Clece-- Delacazette - 1825 -' (mid-right)
oval, 3¾ in. (96 mm.) high, cast gilt-metal mount on rectangular veneered lemonwood panel
A young lady, facing right in white dress with puffed sleeves, fichu caught in her blue sash, turquoise stole draped over her left shoulder, her brown hair tightly curled and upswept in an Apollo knot
signed and dated 'S
oval, 3¾ in. (96 mm.) high, cast gilt-metal mount on rectangular veneered lemonwood panel
Provenance
Madame J. Brasseur Collection, Lille; (+) Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1 June 1928, lot 43 (6,000 Francs to M. Desbordes).
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 191 (praised as 'good').