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A young lady in lace-bordered white silk dress, red and gold twisted sash, yellow and red roses and sweeping gauze veil falling from her upswept and curled dark hair
Details
RODOLPHE BEL (SWISS, FL. C. 1822-1849)
A young lady in lace-bordered white silk dress, red and gold twisted sash, yellow and red roses and sweeping gauze veil falling from her upswept and curled dark hair
signed 'Bel' (lower left)
octagonal, 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. (74 x 60 mm.), rectangular gilt-metal frame with foliate border
A young lady in lace-bordered white silk dress, red and gold twisted sash, yellow and red roses and sweeping gauze veil falling from her upswept and curled dark hair
signed 'Bel' (lower left)
octagonal, 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. (74 x 60 mm.), rectangular gilt-metal frame with foliate border
Provenance
Jacques Mühsam, Berlin; Kunstauktionshaus Glückselig, Vienna, 27-30 April 1925, lot 24.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen; part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 110.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen; part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 110.
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 72 (praised as 'very good').
Exhibited
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1954, no. 34 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.