MARIE-THÉRÈSE DE NOIRETERRE (1760-1819)

A Girl, facing left in long-sleeved white dress with fichu and black sash with cameo-set buckle, white lace cap adorned with knotted silk ribbon and large embroidered olive bow, long brown hair

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MARIE-THÉRÈSE DE NOIRETERRE (1760-1819)
A Girl, facing left in long-sleeved white dress with fichu and black sash with cameo-set buckle, white lace cap adorned with knotted silk ribbon and large embroidered olive bow, long brown hair
signed 'M.lle Noireterre.' (lower right)
26 in. (66 mm.) diam., stamped gilt-metal frame with scrolling borders

Lot Essay

The signature reduced to 'M.lle Noireterre' indicates that the present miniature was painted about 1793, during the terror of the French Revolution when the arist, an aristocrat, tried to escape persecution. For a miniature of her pre-Revolutionary period, see lot 188.

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