Details

RODOLPHE BEL (SWISS, FL. C. 1822-1849)
A young lady, in white dress with peppermint green sash, wearing a long necklace through which her left thumb is looped, sapphire and pearl-set gold brooch at corsage, gold bracelets, upswept dark curling hair, seated on an upholstered chair; lilac curtain and sky background
on ivory
octagonal, 4 5/8 x 3 5/8 in. (118 x 92 mm.), gilt-copper mount within rectangular stamped gilt-metal plaque on wooden base with lemonwood veneer

Provenance

Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen; part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 109.
Sotheby's, Geneva, 21 May 1992, lot 40.
Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 November 1993, lot 26.
Bonhams, London, 19 March 1996, lot 58.

Exhibited

Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 35.
Lausanne, Musée historique de Lausanne, 100 ans de miniatures Suisses 1780-1880, 1999-2000, no. 186.

Special Notice

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