Lot Essay
A reduced version, erroneously catalogued as Vestier's work, is illustrated and discussed in Anne-Marie Passez, Antoine Vestier, Paris, 1989, nr 164.
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MARIE-THÉRÈSE DE NOIRETERRE, circa 1780/1785
A young man against a landscape background, wearing a high-piled grey-powdered short curly wig, a large open white shirt with pleated muslin jabot and a green and red checked silk waistcoat -- 65 mm diam., gold frame, the glazed reverse painted in brown camaïeu with a landscape and a dog surrounding a pierced oval reserve containing a hair lock surmounted by a putto holding a floral swag.
A young man against a landscape background, wearing a high-piled grey-powdered short curly wig, a large open white shirt with pleated muslin jabot and a green and red checked silk waistcoat -- 65 mm diam., gold frame, the glazed reverse painted in brown camaïeu with a landscape and a dog surrounding a pierced oval reserve containing a hair lock surmounted by a putto holding a floral swag.