FERDINANDO QUAGLIA, signed, circa 1815

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FERDINANDO QUAGLIA, signed, circa 1815

Ida de Grimod d'Orsay as a young girl, her centre-parted light brown hair dressed in ringlets, wearing a lace-edged white muslin dress tied with a sky blue sash, a multicolour-embroidered cashmere shawl with red, green and ochre stripes draped around her arms; oval -- 69 mm high, within an engraved gold mount surrounded by a blue enamel band, on a black snuff-box with gold lining by Jean-Louis Leferre (89 mm diam.), the outside of the base inset with a glazed oval medallion containing a hair composition of the sitter's name

Literature

Carlo Jeannerat, "Il pittore Ferdinando Quaglia", Dedalo, I, 1921, p. 542, mentioned as listed in Quaglia's Note des portraits faits à Paris.

Lot Essay

Ida de Grimod d'Orsay (1802-1882) was the younger sister of Alfred, third comte d'Orsay, the celebrated parisian dandy and artist. In 1818, she married Antoine IX Geneviève-Héraclius-Agénor (1789-1855), duc de Guise who became 9th duc de Gramont in 1836.

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