Lot Essay
A label on the back of the miniature identifies the sitter as Madame de Launay, and the artist erroneously as Pierre Chasselat.
Details
JEAN-BAPTISTE SOYER, circa 1790
A young lady called Madame de Launay, wearing a blue-grey changeant silk dress with white muslin fichu and matching belt, a double string of pearls entwined in her high-piled light brown curly hair -- 57 mm diam., gilt-metal frame with glazed silk reverse.
A young lady called Madame de Launay, wearing a blue-grey changeant silk dress with white muslin fichu and matching belt, a double string of pearls entwined in her high-piled light brown curly hair -- 57 mm diam., gilt-metal frame with glazed silk reverse.
Provenance
Formerly in the Paul Le Comte Collection.