Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 134. BENJAMIN ARLAUD | Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Ermesinde de Corneillan, Comtesse de Bégiers, circa 1705.

BENJAMIN ARLAUD | Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Ermesinde de Corneillan, Comtesse de Bégiers, circa 1705

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1,200 - 1,800 GBP

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BENJAMIN ARLAUD

Geneva circa 1670 - after 1731 London

PORTRAIT OF A LADY, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS ERMESINDE DE CORNEILLAN, COMTESSE DE BÉGIERS, CIRCA 1705


Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, mounted on a playing card, gilt-metal frame;

later inscribed with the sitter's name on backing sheet

6.3 by 5.1 cm., 2½ by 2 in.


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Sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 December 1974, lot 126;

sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 June 1993, lot 270