Details
PIERRE-LOUIS BOUVIER, signed and dated 1791
A self-portrait of the artist, bust-length in profile to the left, wearing a grey-powdered curly wig, a light-grey double-breasted coat with turquoise green moiré high collar and a knotted lace-bordered white muslin cravat; against a dark-blue ground; oval -- 46 mm high, gilt-metal mount.
A self-portrait of the artist, bust-length in profile to the left, wearing a grey-powdered curly wig, a light-grey double-breasted coat with turquoise green moiré high collar and a knotted lace-bordered white muslin cravat; against a dark-blue ground; oval -- 46 mm high, gilt-metal mount.
Provenance
By family descent from the sitter and artist to the present owner.
Literature
Élisabeth della Santa, Pierre-Louis Bouvier. Peintre et miniaturiste genevois (1765-1836), Nyon and Geneva, 1978, illustr. "Album" pl. I, "Biographie" on the front cover, discussed pp. 7-8 (erroneously as dated 1797); Élisabeth della Santa, Florilège de la Famille Bouvier, Geneva, 1987, illustr. fig. 36.