CONTINENTAL SCHOOL AFTER LE TELLIER

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CONTINENTAL SCHOOL AFTER LE TELLIER
A girl called Mlle Bianchi, seated in a landscape with a letter, in décolleté white dress with pink ribbons, her upswept fair hair decorated with ribbons; waterfalls and trees in the distance
on ivory
oval, 2½ in. (65 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame

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Lot Essay

The present lot is after a rectangular miniature in the Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris (inv. no. J775), best known by its illustration in M. von Boehn, Miniaturen und Silhouetten, Munich, 1917, colour pl. 10 (erroneously as by Augustin).

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