Antoine Vestier

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Michel Heine;
J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York;
his executor's sale, London, Christie's, 24 June 1935, lot 485;
The Plantevigne Collection, Paris, by 1956;
sale, Versailles, Trianon-Palace, 1 June 1972, lot 178;
sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 12 November 1980, lot 182;
where acquired by Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)

G.C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures - The Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, London, 1906-08, vol. III, no. 469;
A.-M. Passez, Antoine Vestier, Paris, 1989, p. 272, no. 174

Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histore, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouche, 1956, no. 449