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An important miniature of a young lady formerly called Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese, three-quarter length seated on a grassy bank holding an open book in her left hand, in white dress, multi-coloured embroidered cashmere stole draped over her right shoulder, her right arm raised to her forehead, tortoiseshell comb in her upswept and curled dark brown hair; flowers and foliage background (artist's joins)
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ETIENNE CHARLES LE GUAY (FRENCH, 1762-1846)
An important miniature of a young lady formerly called Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese, three-quarter length seated on a grassy bank holding an open book in her left hand, in white dress, multi-coloured embroidered cashmere stole draped over her right shoulder, her right arm raised to her forehead, tortoiseshell comb in her upswept and curled dark brown hair; flowers and foliage background (artist's joins)
signed 'Le Guay.' (mid-left)
oval, 8¾ in. (222 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
An important miniature of a young lady formerly called Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese, three-quarter length seated on a grassy bank holding an open book in her left hand, in white dress, multi-coloured embroidered cashmere stole draped over her right shoulder, her right arm raised to her forehead, tortoiseshell comb in her upswept and curled dark brown hair; flowers and foliage background (artist's joins)
signed 'Le Guay.' (mid-left)
oval, 8¾ in. (222 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
Provenance
Maxime Hébert, Paris, no. 1010.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, inv. no. 260, M/D 0604; sale, part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 178 (as a portrait of Pauline Bonaparte).
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, inv. no. 260, M/D 0604; sale, part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 178 (as a portrait of Pauline Bonaparte).
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 484, praised as 'One of the most important min. on iv. signed: Le Guay that I know of is the portr. of Pauline Bonaparte in the Holzscheiter Coll., Meilen', II, p. 993, no. 711, illustrated III, pl. 351, no. 711.
Musée Cognacq-Jay - Les Miniatures, Paris, 2002, pp. 113, 133.
Musée Cognacq-Jay - Les Miniatures, Paris, 2002, pp. 113, 133.
Exhibited
Arenenberg, Napoleonmuseum, Miniaturen und Karikaturen, 1954, no. 27 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 263 (as a portrait of Pauline Bonaparte, lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 263 (as a portrait of Pauline Bonaparte, lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.
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