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A young lady, full face in white silk dress with triple frilled collar, pink bow at corsage, large hat adorned with pink roses, foliage and white ribbon in her powdered upswept curling hair
Details
ANTOINE VESTIER (1740-1824)
A young lady, full face in white silk dress with triple frilled collar, pink bow at corsage, large hat adorned with pink roses, foliage and white ribbon in her powdered upswept curling hair
signed and dated 'Vestier 1783' (lower right)
21/8 in. (54 mm.) diam., gold frame, the reverse with foliate monogram LH on a pink ground
A young lady, full face in white silk dress with triple frilled collar, pink bow at corsage, large hat adorned with pink roses, foliage and white ribbon in her powdered upswept curling hair
signed and dated 'Vestier 1783' (lower right)
21/8 in. (54 mm.) diam., gold frame, the reverse with foliate monogram LH on a pink ground
Provenance
Greta S. Heckett, Heckmeres Highlands, Valencia, PA.; (+) part I, Sotheby's, Monte Carlo, 4 May 1977, lot 73.
Literature
A.-M. Passez, Antoine Vestier 1740-1824, Paris, 1989, pp. 290, 292, no. 198, illustrated p. 291 ('Le très aristocratique modèle de Vestier [...] L'importante capeline ornée de rubans et de roses donne une certaine originalité au portrait.').