Lot Essay
For the most recent article on Macpherson, see Rachel Layton Elwes, 'Giuseppe Macpherson 1726-c1780', The British Art Journal - Somerset House, II, 2, Winter 2000-2001, pp. 53-57.
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A young lady, facing right in low-cut blue dress with white underdress and laced bodice, pink bows tied around her upper arms and pink rose at corsage, pink and blue flowers and white scarf tied in tassels in her curled upswept hair
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GIUSEPPE MACPHERSON (1726 - C. 1780)
A young lady, facing right in low-cut blue dress with white underdress and laced bodice, pink bows tied around her upper arms and pink rose at corsage, pink and blue flowers and white scarf tied in tassels in her curled upswept hair
enamel on copper
oval, 2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, gold bezel
A young lady, facing right in low-cut blue dress with white underdress and laced bodice, pink bows tied around her upper arms and pink rose at corsage, pink and blue flowers and white scarf tied in tassels in her curled upswept hair
enamel on copper
oval, 2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, gold bezel
Provenance
D. David-Weill (1871-1952), Neuilly-sur-Seine, no. 4130.
Sold by Wildenstein's, Paris to Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979). Clore Collection of Portrait Miniatures, part II, Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1986, lot 176 (as Swiss School, circa 1770).
Sold by Wildenstein's, Paris to Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979). Clore Collection of Portrait Miniatures, part II, Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1986, lot 176 (as Swiss School, circa 1770).
Literature
L. Gillet/C. Jeannerat/H. Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, p. 574, no. 434, illustrated p. 575.
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