A Boy, facing left in plum-coloured coat, bordeaux-red velvet waistcoat and white shirt with knotted cravat, parted curly brown hair; sunset sky and landscape background
Details
HENRI-JOSEPH HESSE (1781-1849)
A Boy, facing left in plum-coloured coat, bordeaux-red velvet waistcoat and white shirt with knotted cravat, parted curly brown hair; sunset sky and landscape background
signed 'Hesse.' (mid-right)
on card
oval, 11 7/8 in. (277 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
A Boy, facing left in plum-coloured coat, bordeaux-red velvet waistcoat and white shirt with knotted cravat, parted curly brown hair; sunset sky and landscape background
signed 'Hesse.' (mid-right)
on card
oval, 11 7/8 in. (277 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 973, illustrated III, pl. 282, fig. 553.