A young lady, facing left in white silk dress with wide pink and blue striped sash, white scarf with embroidered red and blue border tied at corsage, necklace, lace bordered white scarf tied as a turban in her curling dark hair; pillar background

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PIERRE-LOUIS BOUVIER (1765-1836)
A young lady, facing left in white silk dress with wide pink and blue striped sash, white scarf with embroidered red and blue border tied at corsage, necklace, lace bordered white scarf tied as a turban in her curling dark hair; pillar background
signed and dated 'Bouvier f.t 1792.' (lower left)
oval, 2½ in. (64 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount with beaded border

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Lot Essay

For an autograph enamel version of the present miniature, also signed and dated 1792, see F. X. Sturm, Émaux peints de Genève, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, Geneva, 1975, front cover illustration, and E. della Santa, Pierre-Louis Bouvier - Album, Nyon, 1978, pl. IV.

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