Lot 80
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JEAN LAURENT MOSNIER | Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as the Vicomtesse de Podenas

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as the Vicomtesse de Podenas
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal mount, glazed reverse;signed and dated lower right: mosnier / 1779
  • 55 by 46 mm.

Provenance

Baron Othon de Bourgoing, Vienna, 1925;
sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 17 November 1988, lot 316

Literature

de Bourgoing, 1925, p. 76, no. 29, pl. 28;
de Bourgoing, 1928, pl. 21

Condition

Minor spot of restoration in background between hair and border upper right.
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