THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
G. DUCKER, signed, circa 1800
Details
G. DUCKER, signed, circa 1800
A young gentleman wearing a blue-green coat over a striped yellow waistcoat and knotted white cravat with pleated jabot, his forward-combed dark hair falling in long ringlets onto his forehead; rectangular -- 71 x 54 mm, gilt-metal mount.
A young gentleman wearing a blue-green coat over a striped yellow waistcoat and knotted white cravat with pleated jabot, his forward-combed dark hair falling in long ringlets onto his forehead; rectangular -- 71 x 54 mm, gilt-metal mount.
Provenance
Formerly in the Maxime Hébert Collection, Paris.
Literature
Léo R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 226 (described as "de fort bonne qualité et très expressif"), II, p. 967, illustr. III, pl. 185, fig. 345.
Exhibited
Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, June-August 1956, nr 130; Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750-1850, Vienna, Albertina, March-May 1965, nr 91.