Lot 143
  • 143

VIRGINIE HÜE DE BRÉVAL | Portrait of lady

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Portrait of lady
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal mount, tortoiseshell box, doublé lining;signed and dated centre left: Melle Hüe de Bréval. 1813.
  • 67 by 47 mm.

Provenance

Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen (1778-1962);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 June 1986, lot 88

Exhibited

Geneva, 1956, no. 229

Literature

Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 411, no. 175

Condition

The miniature - overall very good. The box lid is cracked in 2 places, at 10 o'clock running down to hinge and 1 o'clock running to corner and joining second crack that covers the corner of the lid.
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