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A young lady called Madame de Senonnes, in red silk dress, the border encrusted with multi-coloured jewels and gold-bordered white underdress, multi-coloured gem-set gold necklace worn as a headband in her upswept dark hair dressed in an Apollo knot with floating gauze veil; sky and cloud background
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JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY (FRENCH, 1767-1855)
A young lady called Madame de Senonnes, in red silk dress, the border encrusted with multi-coloured jewels and gold-bordered white underdress, multi-coloured gem-set gold necklace worn as a headband in her upswept dark hair dressed in an Apollo knot with floating gauze veil; sky and cloud background
signed and dated 'J Isabey . 1833' (mid-left)
watercolour and pencil on card
rectangular, 5 7/16 x 4 in. (137 x 99 mm.), velvet mount within an ormolu easel frame
A young lady called Madame de Senonnes, in red silk dress, the border encrusted with multi-coloured jewels and gold-bordered white underdress, multi-coloured gem-set gold necklace worn as a headband in her upswept dark hair dressed in an Apollo knot with floating gauze veil; sky and cloud background
signed and dated 'J Isabey . 1833' (mid-left)
watercolour and pencil on card
rectangular, 5 7/16 x 4 in. (137 x 99 mm.), velvet mount within an ormolu easel frame
Provenance
With Hodgkins, London.
Bought from the latter by Leo R. Schidlof, Vienna, in 1914.
Sold by the latter to Theodor Bergmann, Vienna.
Maximilian Kellner, Vienna, in 1924.
The Albertina, Vienna; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 18 May 1949, lot 795.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, inv. no. 320, M/D 0470; sale, part II, Sotheby's, London, 1 May 1980, lot 95.
Bought from the latter by Leo R. Schidlof, Vienna, in 1914.
Sold by the latter to Theodor Bergmann, Vienna.
Maximilian Kellner, Vienna, in 1924.
The Albertina, Vienna; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 18 May 1949, lot 795.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, inv. no. 320, M/D 0470; sale, part II, Sotheby's, London, 1 May 1980, lot 95.
Literature
Mme de Basily-Callimaki, J. B. Isabey, sa vie - son temps, Paris, 1909, illustrated p. 350 (then with Hodgkins, London).
M. Eisler, 'Die Wienerin im Vormärz', Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, 12, August 1931, illustrated in colour p. 570.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 397, praised as 'very good'.
M. Eisler, 'Die Wienerin im Vormärz', Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, 12, August 1931, illustrated in colour p. 570.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 397, praised as 'very good'.
Exhibited
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 483, illustrated pl. X (lent by Maximilian Kellner, Vienna).
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1954, no. 241 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Zurich, Haus am Rechberg, 1957-1958 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Zurich, Haus am Rechberg, 1961 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1954, no. 241 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Zurich, Haus am Rechberg, 1957-1958 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Zurich, Haus am Rechberg, 1961 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.