Lot Essay
A similar large-scale miniature by this talented pupil of Daniel Saint is illustrated in P. Jean-Richard, Miniatures sur ivoire. Musée du Louvre. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, p. 72, no. 95.
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Auguste-Joseph Carrier
A young Lady, facing right in black dress with white underslip, red-lined ermine stole around her shoulders, her dark hair plaited and upswept, standing full length in a garden landscape, beside a flight of stone steps; an urn on a stone plinth, column and red curtain background
signed and dated 'Carrier. 1843', gilt wood frame
rectangular, 10½ x 7¾in. (265 x 195mm.)
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A young Lady, facing right in black dress with white underslip, red-lined ermine stole around her shoulders, her dark hair plaited and upswept, standing full length in a garden landscape, beside a flight of stone steps; an urn on a stone plinth, column and red curtain background
signed and dated 'Carrier. 1843', gilt wood frame
rectangular, 10½ x 7¾in. (265 x 195mm.)
See Illustration