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Lot Essay
Another, slightly smaller, version of the present miniature was sold Christie's, London, 21 June 1999, lot 50.
Details
FRANÇOIS MEURET (FRENCH, 1800-1887)
A young lady, in black off-the-shoulder velvet dress with white lace trim, lace cap with peach ribbon, decorated with flowers, dark upswept hair
signed 'Meuret' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 3¾ in. (97 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount with stamped border
A young lady, in black off-the-shoulder velvet dress with white lace trim, lace cap with peach ribbon, decorated with flowers, dark upswept hair
signed 'Meuret' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 3¾ in. (97 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount with stamped border
Provenance
Domingo Carles, Barcelona, in 1956.
Exhibited
Barcelona, Palacio de la Virreina, Exposición de miniaturas-retrato españolas y extranjeras siglos XVI-XIX, 1956, no. 732, illustrated pl. XXI (lent by Domingo Carles).
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