Lot Essay
This is a variant of the signed version illustrated in P. Jean-Richard, Miniatures sur ivoire. Musée du Louvre. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, p. 179, no. 312.
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A young lady seated in a blue wooden chair in a garden, facing right in blue laced dress, white sleeves tied with blue ribbons at elbows, pink rose at corsage, blue plumed white hat in her long powdered curling hair
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PIERRE-ADOLPHE HALL (1739-1793)
A young lady seated in a blue wooden chair in a garden, facing right in blue laced dress, white sleeves tied with blue ribbons at elbows, pink rose at corsage, blue plumed white hat in her long powdered curling hair
2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) diam., set on the cover of a dark tortoiseshell bonbonnière with gold mounts, marks indistinct, later struck with a French import mark for gold 1864-1893
A young lady seated in a blue wooden chair in a garden, facing right in blue laced dress, white sleeves tied with blue ribbons at elbows, pink rose at corsage, blue plumed white hat in her long powdered curling hair
2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) diam., set on the cover of a dark tortoiseshell bonbonnière with gold mounts, marks indistinct, later struck with a French import mark for gold 1864-1893
Provenance
Michel Heine.
J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York; (+) Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 575, as School of Hall (29gns. to Nyburg).
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968); part I, Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1962, lot 121 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-17).
J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York; (+) Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 575, as School of Hall (29gns. to Nyburg).
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968); part I, Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1962, lot 121 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-17).
Literature
G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, III, London, 1907, no. 514H, p. 146, as School of Hall.
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