Lot 115
  • 115

MARIE-GABRIELLE CAPET | Portrait of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), circa 1790

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), circa 1790
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame:signed centre right: G Capet
  • 66 mm. Diam.

Provenance

Madame Guérard, Paris, 1906;
sale, Geneva, Christie's, 15 November 1994, lot 214

Exhibited

Paris, 1906, no. 79, illust. opposite p. 16
Caen, 2014, no. 156, fig. A 

Literature

Bouchot, 1907, p. 124, illust. p. 130;
Bouchot, 1910, p. 160;
Mauclair, 1912, p. 60;
de Mauri, 1918, p. 278, illust.;
Audin & Vail, 1918, p. 144;
Darmon, 1924, p. 29;
Doria, 1934, pp. 72-73, no. 23, pl. XVIII, no. 22;
Schidlof, 1964, vol. I, p. 126;
Passez, 1973, p. 31;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 401, illust. p. 74;
Lemoine-Bouchard, 2008, p. 138;

Condition

In good order.
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Catalogue Note

Madame Labille Guiard exhibited miniatures, pastels and oils at the Paris Salon between 1782 and 1800. In 1781 Marie Capet entered her studio as an assistant and the artist was to become her most talented pupil.