Details
HENRY ADAMS, circa 1800
A young lady wearing a short-sleeved very low-cut embroidered white muslin dress tied under her breast with a long blue bow, a blue-striped yellow shawl draped about her right shoulder, her frizzed brown hair falling in long coils onto her shoulders and entwined with a blue ribbon; rocky wooded landscape background; enamel on copper -- 66 mm diam., rectangular gilt-metal frame with silvered flower spandrels.
A young lady wearing a short-sleeved very low-cut embroidered white muslin dress tied under her breast with a long blue bow, a blue-striped yellow shawl draped about her right shoulder, her frizzed brown hair falling in long coils onto her shoulders and entwined with a blue ribbon; rocky wooded landscape background; enamel on copper -- 66 mm diam., rectangular gilt-metal frame with silvered flower spandrels.
Provenance
David David-Weill (1871-1952), Neuilly-sur-Seine, nr 2974; sold by Wildenstein's, Paris to Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London; "The Clore Collection of Portrait Miniatures", part I, Sotheby's, London, 17 March 1986, lot 128 (as by Isaac Adam).
Literature
Carlo Jeannerat and Henri Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, nr 251 (as attributed to Isaac Adam), ill. p. 377.