Details
PIERRE-ADOLPHE HALL, circa 1785
A young lady wearing a low-cut grey satin dress with lilac lapels, a bouquet of flowers fixed at her corsage; her high-piled powdered hair adorned with lilac and light green ribbons; foliage background -- 55 mm diam., stamped gilt-metal mount on the cover of a dark Louis XVI bonbonnière
A young lady wearing a low-cut grey satin dress with lilac lapels, a bouquet of flowers fixed at her corsage; her high-piled powdered hair adorned with lilac and light green ribbons; foliage background -- 55 mm diam., stamped gilt-metal mount on the cover of a dark Louis XVI bonbonnière
Provenance
C. S. Collection, sold in the catalogue "Bedeutende Gemälde, [...] Miniaturen ersten Ranges", Vienna, Dorotheum, Kunstauktionshaus Leo Schidlof, 28 and 29 March 1928, lot 156, described as "Unsigniertes, überaus charakteristisches Werk des Meisters, um 1780, von großer Farbenfrische und vorzüglicher Qualität", estimated 10,000 Austrian Schillings, sold 12,000 Austrian Schillings to the grandfather of the present owners.