Colette de Reiset, Baronne de Beurnonville (1805-1833), standing in a landscape, facing right in lace-bordered white dress with orange-pink sash, pink roses and foliage in her centre-parted curled and upswept brown hair

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DANIEL SAINT (1778-1847)
Colette de Reiset, Baronne de Beurnonville (1805-1833), standing in a landscape, facing right in lace-bordered white dress with orange-pink sash, pink roses and foliage in her centre-parted curled and upswept brown hair
signed 'Saint.' (mid-right)
oval, 3 1/8 in. (79 mm.) high, fine rectangular Empire gilt-metal frame with foliate spandrels

Provenance

Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionhaus, Vienna, 7-12 February 1921, lot 538 (sitter unidentified).

Literature

L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 712 (praised as 'very good').

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Lot Essay

The identification of the sitter is based on another autograph version of this miniature by Saint, formerly in the collection of the Marquis de Ségur, Château de Méry-sur-Oise, part II sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17 April 1975, lot 81, now in a Continental private collection.

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