Details
MARIE-GABRIELLE CAPET, signed, circa 1790/1795
A fine miniature depicting Adélaïde Labille-Guiard seated on an ochre-upholstered gilt-wood chair, her powdered curly hair falling in long coils onto her shoulders, adorned with a knotted white muslin scarf with silk stripes, a long white ostrich feather and an aigrette tucked into her hairdress, a striped white muslin fichu knotted at the décolleté of her long-sleeved turquoise blue silk caraco over a white waist-sash -- 68 mm diam., gilt-metal frame.
Literature
Henri Bouchot, La miniature française 1750-1825, Paris, 1907, III, p. 124, ill. p. 130; Henri Bouchot, La miniature française 1750-1825, Paris, 1910, p. 160; Camille Mauclair, Les miniatures du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, s. d. [1912], p. 60; L. de Mauri, L'amatore di miniature su avorio, Milan, 1918, ill. p. 278; Marius Audin and Eugène Vial, Dictionnaire des artistes et ouvriers d'art de la France. Lyonnais, Paris, 1918, p. 144; J.-E. Darmon, Dictionnaire des peintres miniaturistes, Paris, n. d. (ca 1924), p. 29; Comte Arnault Doria, Gabrielle Capet, Paris, 1934, pp. 72-73, nr 23, ill. pl. XVIII nr 22; Léo R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 132 (described as "bonne"); Anne-Marie Passez, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Paris, 1973, p. 31.
