Lot 147
  • 147

LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER | Portrait of a young boy

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • Louis-Marie Autissier
  • Portrait of a young boy
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame with blue enamel border;signed and dated lower right: Autissier pt / 1819
  • 88 by 71 mm.

Provenance

Mrs Dames Longworth;
sale, London, Christie's, 22 December 1933, lot 63;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 18 December 1986, lot 30

Exhibited

Brussels, 1998, no. 42

Literature

Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 398

Condition

Very good expect for a restored spot in background, one cm in from 3.30.
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