Lot Essay
For biographical information on the sitter, see lot 104.
A variant of the present miniature, misidentified as the sitter's mother Madame de Genlis, is illustrated and described in S. Grandjean et alii, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor - Gold Boxes, Fribourg 1975, nr 107.
A variant of the present miniature, misidentified as the sitter's mother Madame de Genlis, is illustrated and described in S. Grandjean et alii, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor - Gold Boxes, Fribourg 1975, nr 107.