Lot Essay
Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Lescot studied with Lethière and became painter to the Duchesse de Berry, wife of the future Charles X. In 1820 she married the architect Louis-Pierre Haudebourg.
A Girl seated on a Ledge holding an Egg before her Eyes
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Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Lescot, called Haudebourt Lescot (1784-1845)
A Girl seated on a Ledge holding an Egg before her Eyes
signed 'haudebourt Lescot' and with inscription 'Par Haudebourt Lescot' on the mount
black chalk, watercolour, bodycolour
167 x 119 mm.; and nine drawings of Italian peasants by an early 19th Century French hand (10)
A Girl seated on a Ledge holding an Egg before her Eyes
signed 'haudebourt Lescot' and with inscription 'Par Haudebourt Lescot' on the mount
black chalk, watercolour, bodycolour
167 x 119 mm.; and nine drawings of Italian peasants by an early 19th Century French hand (10)