THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
ANTOINE-CLAUDE FLEURY, signed, circa 1790
Details
ANTOINE-CLAUDE FLEURY, signed, circa 1790
A young lady seated in a wooded landscape and holding a sprig of red roses in her right hand, her grey-powdered curly hair falling in long coils onto her shoulders, wearing a long-sleeved pale blue dress, a white muslin fichu with russet and blue embroidered border knotted about her decollete -- 87 mm diam., plain gilt-metal mount.
A young lady seated in a wooded landscape and holding a sprig of red roses in her right hand, her grey-powdered curly hair falling in long coils onto her shoulders, wearing a long-sleeved pale blue dress, a white muslin fichu with russet and blue embroidered border knotted about her decollete -- 87 mm diam., plain gilt-metal mount.
Provenance
Formerly in the Maxime Hébert Collection, Paris
Literature
Léo R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 269, II, p. 976, illustr. III, pl. 213, fig. 410.
Exhibited
Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750-1850, Vienna, Albertina, March-May 1965, nr 121.