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A young gentleman, facing right in fur-bordered sky blue silk day gown and open white shirt, powdered hair
Details
PIERRE ROUVIER (b. after 1742 - d. after 1815)
A young gentleman, facing right in fur-bordered sky blue silk day gown and open white shirt, powdered hair
signed and dated 'Rouvier 1780' (lower right)
21/8 in. (54 mm.) diam., set in the cover of a gold-mounted circular composition bonbonnière struck with the discharge mark of Henry Clavel
A young gentleman, facing right in fur-bordered sky blue silk day gown and open white shirt, powdered hair
signed and dated 'Rouvier 1780' (lower right)
21/8 in. (54 mm.) diam., set in the cover of a gold-mounted circular composition bonbonnière struck with the discharge mark of Henry Clavel
Provenance
Alphonse Kann Collection, Paris (in 1906).
Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 7-12 February 1921, lot 536.
Albert Lindheimer Collection, Frankfurt (in 1924).
Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 7-12 February 1921, lot 536.
Albert Lindheimer Collection, Frankfurt (in 1924).
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 702 (praised as 'excellent').
Exhibited
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, OEuvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle , 1906, no. 412 (lent by Alphonse Kann, Paris).
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 733 (lent by Albert Lindheimer, Frankfurt).
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 733 (lent by Albert Lindheimer, Frankfurt).