Lot 125
  • 125

JEAN BAPTISTE SOYER | Portrait of Margaretha Bachofen-Heitz (1735-1819) and her husband Martin Bachofen (1727-1814)

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Portrait of Margaretha Bachofen-Heitz (1735-1819) and her husband Martin Bachofen (1727-1814)
  • Both watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, carved gilt-wood frame;each signed and dated lower right: Soyer / 1800
  • Each 85 mm. Diam.

Provenance

By descent within the sitter's family until,
Marquis Patrick de Castellane-Norante;
sale, Geneva, Christie's, 13 November 1990, lot 236

Exhibited

Basel, 1912, no. 674;
Lausanne, 1999-2000, no. 295

Literature

Staehelin, 1919;
Blättel, 1992, p. 1417 & 1418, illust. p. 73;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 428, nos. 350 & 351;
Lemoine-Bouchard, 2008, p. 473

Condition

In good order. Some of the carved wood floral decoration in the frame is lost - as evident from the bole showing.
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