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JEAN-BAPTISTE JOSEPH DUCHESNE DE GISORS (FRENCH, 1770-1856)
A French duchess, in purple velvet off-the-shoulders dress with white trim and sleeves, wearing a fur stole over her shoulders, her upswept hair dressed in plaits and ringlets adorned with pearls, wearing drop-pearl earring
On ivory
Oval, 120 mm. high, gilt-metal mount with foliate pattern, in rectangular wood frame with lemonwood veneer
Indistinctly inscribed on the backing card 'Augustine de [...]zel Dsse de [...]' and, in another hand, 'Citron' [denoting the artist's intention for the miniature to be set in a lemonwood frame]
A French duchess, in purple velvet off-the-shoulders dress with white trim and sleeves, wearing a fur stole over her shoulders, her upswept hair dressed in plaits and ringlets adorned with pearls, wearing drop-pearl earring
On ivory
Oval, 120 mm. high, gilt-metal mount with foliate pattern, in rectangular wood frame with lemonwood veneer
Indistinctly inscribed on the backing card 'Augustine de [...]zel Dsse de [...]' and, in another hand, 'Citron' [denoting the artist's intention for the miniature to be set in a lemonwood frame]
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