Lot Essay
A reduced version, erroneously catalogued as Vestier's work, is illustrated and discussed in Anne Marie Passez, Antoine Vestier 1740-1824, Paris, 1989, no. 164.
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A young gentleman, in red and green checked waistcoat, open white shirt with frilled jabot, powdered wig; foliate background
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MARIE-THÉRÈSE DE NOIRETERRE (FRENCH, 1760 - AFTER 1819)
A young gentleman, in red and green checked waistcoat, open white shirt with frilled jabot, powdered wig; foliate background
2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) diam., gold frame, the glazed reverse painted in brown camaïeu with a landscape and a dog surrounding a pierced oval reserve containing a lock of hair surmounted by a putto holding a floral swag
A young gentleman, in red and green checked waistcoat, open white shirt with frilled jabot, powdered wig; foliate background
2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) diam., gold frame, the glazed reverse painted in brown camaïeu with a landscape and a dog surrounding a pierced oval reserve containing a lock of hair surmounted by a putto holding a floral swag
Provenance
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 March 1987 (as by Sicardi).
Literature
X. Narbaïts, 'Les miniatures - précieuses et fragiles', La cote des antiquités, no. 2, November 1987, illustrated in colour p. 35.
S. Humair, 'Les miniaturistes des rois', La gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, 30, 18 May 1990, illustrated p. 142 (as attributed to Sicardi).
S. Humair, 'Les miniaturistes des rois', La gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, 30, 18 May 1990, illustrated p. 142 (as attributed to Sicardi).
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