Lot Essay
The signature on the reverse reads: "peint à Strasbourg Phil: Jac: Loutherbourg en 1752. Mois 7bre.
FROM A DUTCH PRIVATE COLLECTION
PHILIPP JACOB LOUTHERBOURG, signed and dated on the reverse 1752 with address Strasbourg
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PHILIPP JACOB LOUTHERBOURG, signed and dated on the reverse 1752 with address Strasbourg
Beatrix Mollinger née Capier (1721-1769) standing on a terrace with a stone wall and a column on which a lizard is climbing, against a landscape background, she with short powdered curly hair, wearing jewelled earrings, a white lace mob-cap tied with a knotted pink ribbon, her white satin dress adorned with pink bows and edged with white lace, a lace-bordered black silk domino draped about her shoulders and tied under her chin with a ribbon; on cardboard, rectangular -- 52 x 69 mm, narrow gilt-metal mount.
Beatrix Mollinger née Capier (1721-1769) standing on a terrace with a stone wall and a column on which a lizard is climbing, against a landscape background, she with short powdered curly hair, wearing jewelled earrings, a white lace mob-cap tied with a knotted pink ribbon, her white satin dress adorned with pink bows and edged with white lace, a lace-bordered black silk domino draped about her shoulders and tied under her chin with a ribbon; on cardboard, rectangular -- 52 x 69 mm, narrow gilt-metal mount.