Lot 88
  • 88

PIERRE ADOLPHE HALL | Portrait of a lady, circa 1785

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hall
  • Portrait of a lady, circa 1785
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, set in the lid of a tortoiseshell box with gold mounts, maker's mark rubbed, charge and discharge marks of Henri Clavel, probably 1785;signed centre right: Hall
  • 73 mm. Diam.

Provenance

David David-Weill (1871-1952), inv. no. 515, until 1936;
with Wildenstein, Paris;
Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London,
his executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 17 March 1986, lot 88

Exhibited

London, 1961, no. 81

Literature

Gillet, et al., 1957, p. 150, no. 81, illust. p. 151