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A fine miniature of a young lady, facing right in lace-bordered low-cut white silk dress with white striped skirt, pink sash, long powdered curling hair, her right hand raised to her face; leaning on a stone plinth strewn with pink roses and flowers, tree and foliate background
Details
JEAN-BAPTISTE WEYLER (1747-1791)
A fine miniature of a young lady, facing right in lace-bordered low-cut white silk dress with white striped skirt, pink sash, long powdered curling hair, her right hand raised to her face; leaning on a stone plinth strewn with pink roses and flowers, tree and foliate background
signed 'Weyler' (lower right)
27/8 in. (73 mm.) diam., ormolu frame
A fine miniature of a young lady, facing right in lace-bordered low-cut white silk dress with white striped skirt, pink sash, long powdered curling hair, her right hand raised to her face; leaning on a stone plinth strewn with pink roses and flowers, tree and foliate background
signed 'Weyler' (lower right)
27/8 in. (73 mm.) diam., ormolu frame
Literature
Exhibition catalogue Bordeaux, Musée des Arts décoratifs/Geneva, Musée de l'Horlogerie/Paris, Musée du Louvre, L'âge d'or du petit portrait, 1995-1996, illustrated in colour p. 19, fig. 4.