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Swiss Made UNLOCKED
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE DR. ERIKA POHL-STRÖHER (1919-2016)
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June 30, 03:46 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 CHF
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE DR. ERIKA POHL-STRÖHER (1919-2016)
JACQUES THOURON
Geneva 1740 - 1789 Paris
PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM BENOÎT (1736-1824)
Enamel on copper, gilt-metal mount and frame, in associated shagreen case
Signed and dated lower right
3.5 x 3 cm (unframed); 10 x 8 cm (framed)
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Professor Eugene Ritter of Geneva (1828-1928)
Christie's Geneva, 21st November 1979, lot 337
Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016) (purchased at the above sale)
Jean Henri Demole, Les émaux et les miniatures à l'exposition du Centenaire, vol. VII, 1917, p. 67-68
Henri Clouzot, 'L'école genevoise de peinture sur émail', La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe, Marz, 1919, p. 108
Henri Clouzot, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes sur émail, Paris, 1924, p. 194
Henri Clouzot, La miniature sur émail en France, Paris 1928, p. 139
Jean-Claude Genoud, 100 ans de miniatures suisse 1780-1880, 1999, p. 56
Margareta Friesen, Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880, Darmstadt, 2001, p. 428, no. 357
Karine Tissot, Artistes à Genève de 1400 à nos jours, Geneva, 2010, p. 588
Geneva, Musée Rath, Exposition rétrospective du Centenaire de l’Entree de Geneve dans la Confederation Suisse, 1914
Lausanne, Musée Historique, 100 ans de miniatures suisse 1780-1880, 1999-2000, no. 8
The sitter was a member of the Council of Two Hundred in Bern. In 1766 he married Rosine de Greyerz.