Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
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May 7, 04:14 PM GMT
Estimate
1,800 - 2,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
LOUIS MARIE SICARDI
Avignon 1746 - 1825 Paris
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN
Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame;
signed and dated lower left: Sicardi / 1808
6.3 by 4.7 cm., 2½ by 1⅞ in.
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Sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 16 May 1991, lot 34
M. Friesen, Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880, Darmstadt, 2001, p. 426, fig. 333;
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 468
Salomon Guillaume Cousis copied this miniature in enamal in 1810 (see exhibited Lausanne cat. no. 49).