Details
ADÉLAÏDE LABILLE-GUIARD, signed and dated 1781
A gentleman with powdered wig, wearing a dark grey velvet coat and matching waistcoat with white lace jabot; oval -- 40 mm high, two-colour gold mount with beaded border.
A gentleman with powdered wig, wearing a dark grey velvet coat and matching waistcoat with white lace jabot; oval -- 40 mm high, two-colour gold mount with beaded border.
Provenance
Fitz-Henry Collection, sold Paris, Hôtel Drouot, rooms 7 and 8, Maître Lair-Dubreuil, 20 February 1914, lot 323; Warneck Collection, Paris, part II sold Vienna, Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, 19 November 1924, lot 87, ill. pl. V.
Literature
Paul-André Lemoisne, "Exposition des Oeuvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle", Les Arts, 55, July 1906, p. 18 (described as "très beau"); Henri Bouchot, La miniature française, Paris, 1907, vol. I, pp. 29, 60 (described as "un petit chef-d'oeuvre"); Henri Bouchot, La miniature française, Paris, 1910, pp. 37, 77; Leo Schidlof, Die Bildnisminiatur in Frankreich im XVII., XVIII. und XIX. Jahrhundert, Vienna and Leipzig, 1911, p. 30 (described as "vorzügliches Herrenporträt"); Paul-André Lemoisne, "Les miniaturistes français", Les Arts, 129, September 1912, p. 14; Paul-André Lemoisne, "Le portrait-miniature en France de la Régence au règne de Louis-Philippe", in L'exposition de la miniature à Bruxelles en 1912, Brussels and Paris, 1913, p. 64, ill. pl. XXVI, nr 115; L. de Mauri, L'amatore di miniature su avorio, Milan, 1918, p. 318; Paul Ratouis de Limay, Le pastel en France au dix-huitième siècle, Paris, 1946, p. 100, note 1; Mariano Tomás, La miniatura-retrato en España, Spain, 1953, ill. colour pl. LII; Leo R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, vol. I, pp. 468-469 (described as "très bonne"); Anne-Marie Passez, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Paris, 1973, p. 82, nr 19 (praises its "finesse vraiment remarquable" and "beaucoup de force et de caractère").
Exhibited
Oeuvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1906, second supplement, nr 42; Exposition de la miniature, Brussels, Hôtel Goffinet, March - July 1912, nr 904; Internationale Miniaturenausstellung in der Albertina Wien, May - June 1924, nr 528.