THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT, signed, circa 1790/1795
Details
AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT, signed, circa 1790/1795
A fine miniature of a young lady with long curly light-brown hair, her straw hat adorned with a large pink silk bow and fixed under her chin with a knotted matching ribbon, a white fichu with striped border knotted at her corsage; foliage background -- 68 mm diam., fine silver-gilt frame with split-pearl border, the reverse engraved with foliage and centered by a hair composition with gold wire and seed-pearls on a blue opaline glass panel on a guilloché ground.
A fine miniature of a young lady with long curly light-brown hair, her straw hat adorned with a large pink silk bow and fixed under her chin with a knotted matching ribbon, a white fichu with striped border knotted at her corsage; foliage background -- 68 mm diam., fine silver-gilt frame with split-pearl border, the reverse engraved with foliage and centered by a hair composition with gold wire and seed-pearls on a blue opaline glass panel on a guilloché ground.
Literature
Léo R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, II, pp. 697 (described as "excellente"), 1052, ill. IV, pl. 485, nr 994.
Exhibited
Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, June-August 1956, nr 373, illustr.; Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, Vienna, Albertina, March-May 1965, nr 315.