Lot 42
  • 42

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, gilt-metal frame with pearls and enamel boarder, glazed reverse with hair and blue glass panel
  • 57 by 46 mm.

Provenance

Leo R. Schidlof (d. 1966), London, by 1965;
by descent until;
sale, Geneva, Christie's, 15 November 1994, lot 148

Exhibited

Vienna, 1965, no. 191

Literature

Bouchot, 1907, p. 54, illust.;
Nimmergut & Wager, 1982, p. 39, illust.;
De Plinval de Guillebon, 2000, no. 159, pp. 127-8, illust.

Condition

Overall good, save minor flaking of highlight on one rose in hair.
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