VARIOUS PROPERTIES
PIERRE FRITSCHE (fl. circa 1774-1791)
A young Lady, full face in white dress with black-bordered blue surcoat and laced bodice, pink and red flowers at her frilled lace collar, blue bandeau with pink and blue flowers in her high-piled powdered hair
Details
PIERRE FRITSCHE (fl. circa 1774-1791)
A young Lady, full face in white dress with black-bordered blue surcoat and laced bodice, pink and red flowers at her frilled lace collar, blue bandeau with pink and blue flowers in her high-piled powdered hair
signed and dated 'fritche. Pinx: 1784' (lower right)
2 3/8 in. (61 mm.) diam., reeded gold mount, set on the cover of a circular gold-mounted black composition bonbonnière with glazed plaited hair base, the gold mounts struck with the charge and discharge marks of Henry Clavel, Paris, 1784-1788 (3 1/16 in. 78 mm. diam.)
A young Lady, full face in white dress with black-bordered blue surcoat and laced bodice, pink and red flowers at her frilled lace collar, blue bandeau with pink and blue flowers in her high-piled powdered hair
signed and dated 'fritche. Pinx: 1784' (lower right)
2 3/8 in. (61 mm.) diam., reeded gold mount, set on the cover of a circular gold-mounted black composition bonbonnière with glazed plaited hair base, the gold mounts struck with the charge and discharge marks of Henry Clavel, Paris, 1784-1788 (3 1/16 in. 78 mm. diam.)
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 958, illustrated III, pl. 219, fig. 433.