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A young lady, wearing silver tasselled bright blue scarf in her brown curling hair, facing right in white dress, cameo brooch pinned at corsage, red and blue bordered white stole draped around her shoulders
Details
NICOLAS FRANÇOIS DUN (1764-1832)
A young lady, wearing silver tasselled bright blue scarf in her brown curling hair, facing right in white dress, cameo brooch pinned at corsage, red and blue bordered white stole draped around her shoulders
signed 'Dun' (lower right)
rectangular, 2¼ x 1¾ in. (57 x 44 mm.), gilt-metal mount
A young lady, wearing silver tasselled bright blue scarf in her brown curling hair, facing right in white dress, cameo brooch pinned at corsage, red and blue bordered white stole draped around her shoulders
signed 'Dun' (lower right)
rectangular, 2¼ x 1¾ in. (57 x 44 mm.), gilt-metal mount
Provenance
The celebrated collection of Dr. James Simon (1851-1932), Berlin, in 1906; sold Frederik Muller & Cie/Mensing, Amsterdam, 25-26 October 1927, lot 104.
Literature
U. Thieme/F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, Leipzig, 1914, vol. 10, p. 147 (erroneously verbo Dunn, John).
C. Jeannerat, 'Le miniaturiste lorrain Nicolas-François Dun (1764-1832)' Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, 1925, p. 107.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 224.
C. Jeannerat, 'Le miniaturiste lorrain Nicolas-François Dun (1764-1832)' Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, 1925, p. 107.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 224.
Exhibited
Berlin, Salons Friedmann & Weber, Miniaturen Ausstellung, 1906, no. 711 (lent by James Simon, Berlin).
Special notice
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