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A fine miniature of Madame Charles Lefranc, facing right in purple silk dress with lace cuffs and white-bordered gauze scarf tied at corsage, purple ribbon in her high-piled powdered curled hair; seated in a wooden chair with green cushion at her easel, painting her husband's portrait
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ADÉLAÏDE LABILLE-GUIARD (1749-1803)
A fine miniature of Madame Charles Lefranc, facing right in purple silk dress with lace cuffs and white-bordered gauze scarf tied at corsage, purple ribbon in her high-piled powdered curled hair; seated in a wooden chair with green cushion at her easel, painting her husband's portrait
signed and dated 'Labille Guiard 1779.' (lower left)
26 in. (66 mm.) diam., heavy ormolu frame with inner beaded border
A fine miniature of Madame Charles Lefranc, facing right in purple silk dress with lace cuffs and white-bordered gauze scarf tied at corsage, purple ribbon in her high-piled powdered curled hair; seated in a wooden chair with green cushion at her easel, painting her husband's portrait
signed and dated 'Labille Guiard 1779.' (lower left)
26 in. (66 mm.) diam., heavy ormolu frame with inner beaded border
Literature
L. Mouillefarine, 'La peinture en miniature', Figaro Madame, 30 March 1985, no. 12621, illustrated in colour p. 22.
A. L. Luquet de Saint-Germain, 'La miniature n'est pas morte', Trouvailles, April/May 1987, no. 63, illustrated p. 67.
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. 6.
A. L. Luquet de Saint-Germain, 'La miniature n'est pas morte', Trouvailles, April/May 1987, no. 63, illustrated p. 67.
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. 6.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Marigny, Miniatures du XVIe au XIXe siècle , 1985, no. 84, illustrated p. 19, pl. V.