Details
French School, circa 1700
Madame de Montespan, full length in crimson dress, the white bodice and train embroidered in gold and decorated with jewels, blue stole, holding a garland of roses, standing on a terrace, landscape background
on vellum, gilt-metal frame with scrolling border
oval, 6in. (152mm.) high
Madame de Montespan, full length in crimson dress, the white bodice and train embroidered in gold and decorated with jewels, blue stole, holding a garland of roses, standing on a terrace, landscape background
on vellum, gilt-metal frame with scrolling border
oval, 6in. (152mm.) high
Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan, sold Christie's, 25 June 1935, lot 162 as by Jean Nocret (22 gns. to A. Walker)
Literature
G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, the property of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906, III, no. 416