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A gentleman formerly called the painter Alexandre Roslin, in dark blue-grey silk coat, red and blue embroidered white silk waistcoat and lace cravat, powdered hair en queue
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LOUIS-LIÉ PÉRIN-SALBREUX (FRENCH, 1753-1817)
A gentleman formerly called the painter Alexandre Roslin, in dark blue-grey silk coat, red and blue embroidered white silk waistcoat and lace cravat, powdered hair en queue
formerly signed 'Perin' (lower right)
2½ in. (64 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount, set on the cover of a tortoiseshell-lined blue composition bonbonnière with gold piqué-posé borders
A gentleman formerly called the painter Alexandre Roslin, in dark blue-grey silk coat, red and blue embroidered white silk waistcoat and lace cravat, powdered hair en queue
formerly signed 'Perin' (lower right)
2½ in. (64 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount, set on the cover of a tortoiseshell-lined blue composition bonbonnière with gold piqué-posé borders
Provenance
Edouard Warneck, Paris; sale, part II, Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionhaus, Vienna, 19 November 1924, lot 108.
Bought from Leo Schidlof, Paris, on 1 January 1933, by Ernst Holzscheiter.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, inv. no. 421, M/D 0027; sale, part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 111.
Bought from Leo Schidlof, Paris, on 1 January 1933, by Ernst Holzscheiter.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, inv. no. 421, M/D 0027; sale, part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 111.
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 624, praised as 'very good, first period'.
Exhibited
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Aussstellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 635.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.