Lot Essay
The backing paper of the miniature is inscribed: Peint à Tours par Tixier de Ladoule le 30 7bre 1823".
Details
P. U. TIXIER DE LADOULE, signed and dated "à Tours" 1823
A young lady wearing a low-cut pink dress with short puff-sleeves and a green-edged yellow shawl, her abundant brown hair elaborately dressed in bunches of long ringlets; oval -- 77 mm high, cast gilt-metal mount within a rectangular veneered lemonwood panel.
A young lady wearing a low-cut pink dress with short puff-sleeves and a green-edged yellow shawl, her abundant brown hair elaborately dressed in bunches of long ringlets; oval -- 77 mm high, cast gilt-metal mount within a rectangular veneered lemonwood panel.
Provenance
Albert Lindheimer Collection, Frankfurt, sold Vienna, Dorotheum, Kunstauktionshaus Leo Schidlof, 28 and 29 March 1928, lot 221.
Literature
Leo R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, vol. II, p. 842.
Exhibited
Internationale Miniaturenausstellung in der Albertina Wien, May-June 1924, nr 907.