Lot Essay
An inscription of the backing paper of this attractive miniature indicates that Marie-Suzanne Thierry (1776-1861) was married to Mr Moricet.
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JEAN-ANTOINE LAURENT, signed with initial and dated 1794
Marie-Suzanne Moricet seated in a landscape and holding a bouquet of flowers, her curling dark hair adorned with a white silk bandeau and falling in long coils onto her shoulders; wearing a long-sleeved green satin dress with a lace-bordered white muslin fichu crossed around her décolleté; landscape with a country house in the background; rectangular with canted corners -- 74 mm wide, gilt-metal frame.
Marie-Suzanne Moricet seated in a landscape and holding a bouquet of flowers, her curling dark hair adorned with a white silk bandeau and falling in long coils onto her shoulders; wearing a long-sleeved green satin dress with a lace-bordered white muslin fichu crossed around her décolleté; landscape with a country house in the background; rectangular with canted corners -- 74 mm wide, gilt-metal frame.