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A young lady, seated, with her right arm leaning over the back of a wooden chair draped with a green shawl, wearing lace-bordered décolleté white dress with gauze veil draped around her shoulders, triple strand coral bracelets and coral necklaces, drop coral and gold earrings, short curling dark hair
Details
CIRCLE OF SOIRON, CIRCA 1800
A young lady, seated, with her right arm leaning over the back of a wooden chair draped with a green shawl, wearing lace-bordered décolleté white dress with gauze veil draped around her shoulders, triple strand coral bracelets and coral necklaces, drop coral and gold earrings, short curling dark hair
enamel on copper
2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) diam., set on the cover of a blonde tortoiseshell bonbonnière with gold mounts by Pierre-Denis Chaumont (fl. 1777-1792), marked, Paris 1789, with the charge and discharge of Jean-François Kalendrin 1789-1792
A young lady, seated, with her right arm leaning over the back of a wooden chair draped with a green shawl, wearing lace-bordered décolleté white dress with gauze veil draped around her shoulders, triple strand coral bracelets and coral necklaces, drop coral and gold earrings, short curling dark hair
enamel on copper
2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) diam., set on the cover of a blonde tortoiseshell bonbonnière with gold mounts by Pierre-Denis Chaumont (fl. 1777-1792), marked, Paris 1789, with the charge and discharge of Jean-François Kalendrin 1789-1792
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1974, lot 88 (to Dreesmann).
Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-18); Christie's, London, 11 April 2002, lot 765.
Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-18); Christie's, London, 11 April 2002, lot 765.
Literature
S. Humair, 'Les miniaturistes officiels du XIXe siècle', La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, no. 27, 6 July 1990, illustrated p. 63 (as by J.-B. [sic] Soiron).
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