THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
DUPUY, signed and dated 1815
Details
DUPUY, signed and dated 1815
A dark-haired young lady wearing an embroidered white gauze cap fixed under her chin with a sky-blue ribbon, the collar of her long-sleeved chestnut-coloured dress edged with an embroidered white gauze ruff; enamel on copper -- 63 mm diam., reeded gold frame chased with ribbons and foliage.
A dark-haired young lady wearing an embroidered white gauze cap fixed under her chin with a sky-blue ribbon, the collar of her long-sleeved chestnut-coloured dress edged with an embroidered white gauze ruff; enamel on copper -- 63 mm diam., reeded gold frame chased with ribbons and foliage.
Provenance
Edouard Gélis Collection (in 1923)
Literature
Henri Clouzot, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes sur émail, Paris, 1924, p. 72; Henri Clouzot, La miniature sur émail en France, Paris, n. d., p. 160; Léo R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 235, II, p. 968, illustr. III, pl. 191, fig. 357.
Exhibited
Exposition de la verrerie et de l'émaillerie modernes (section historique), Paris, Musée Galliéra, 1923, nr 109 (lent by Edouard Gélis).