Lot Essay
A replica of this miniature by Laurent's younger brother is in the Musée Historique Lorrain, Nancy, illustrated in F. Pupil, loc. cit..
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The artist's daughters as young girls: the elder in green bordered loose white dress with green ribbon bow and long curling fair hair, seated on a wooden chair strewn with pink roses and leaves and pink roses and leaves in her lap; the younger girl holding her sister's arm, in sleeveless white robe and long fair hair; foliate background
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JEAN-ANTOINE LAURENT (1763-1832)
The artist's daughters as young girls: the elder in green bordered loose white dress with green ribbon bow and long curling fair hair, seated on a wooden chair strewn with pink roses and leaves and pink roses and leaves in her lap; the younger girl holding her sister's arm, in sleeveless white robe and long fair hair; foliate background
signed 'Laurent' (mid-centre)
26 in. (65 mm.) diam., gold mount, set in the cover of a composition bonbonnière
The artist's daughters as young girls: the elder in green bordered loose white dress with green ribbon bow and long curling fair hair, seated on a wooden chair strewn with pink roses and leaves and pink roses and leaves in her lap; the younger girl holding her sister's arm, in sleeveless white robe and long fair hair; foliate background
signed 'Laurent' (mid-centre)
26 in. (65 mm.) diam., gold mount, set in the cover of a composition bonbonnière
Provenance
with Madame Lévy ('Au coin rêvé'), Paris, Village Suisse.
Literature
F. Pupil, La miniature, Nancy, 1993, p. 111.