'La leçon d'enfilage': an innocent girl learning to thread pearls, supervised by an elderly procuress wearing glasses

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CARL GUSTAV KLINGSTEDT (1657-1734)
'La leçon d'enfilage': an innocent girl learning to thread pearls, supervised by an elderly procuress wearing glasses
grisaille heightened with watercolour on vellum
oval, 3 5/16 in. (84 mm.) wide, turned wood frame

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Lot Essay

For other miniatures by Klingstedt who was notorious for his topics based on filthy jeux de mots as in the present case, see M. Olausson/J. Sjöholm, Nationalmuseum. Svenska och övriga nordiska miniatyrer, Halmstad, 2001, I, pp. 315-317.

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