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A young lady, full face in white dress with lace-bordered white underdress and large diaphanous sleeves, gold-set cameos pinned at shoulders, her dark hair curled and upswept in an Apollo knot; blue curtain and voil, window, sky and cloud background
Details
RODOLPHE BELL (fl. c. 1822-1849)
A young lady, full face in white dress with lace-bordered white underdress and large diaphanous sleeves, gold-set cameos pinned at shoulders, her dark hair curled and upswept in an Apollo knot; blue curtain and voil, window, sky and cloud background
signed 'Bell' (lower left)
rectangular, 46 x 3½ in. (116 x 88 mm.), gilt-metal cast easel frame with foliate projecting corners
A young lady, full face in white dress with lace-bordered white underdress and large diaphanous sleeves, gold-set cameos pinned at shoulders, her dark hair curled and upswept in an Apollo knot; blue curtain and voil, window, sky and cloud background
signed 'Bell' (lower left)
rectangular, 46 x 3½ in. (116 x 88 mm.), gilt-metal cast easel frame with foliate projecting corners
Provenance
De la Hey Collection, part I, sold Sotheby's, London, 27 May 1968, lot 48.
Literature
D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London, 1972, I, p. 29, no. 45, II, p. 15, no. 45, illustrated pl. 15, no. 45.
Exhibited
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 27 (lent by Major de la Hey, London).
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