JEAN-FRANÇOIS FAVRE | PORTRAIT OF A GIRL HOLDING FLOWERS, 1777

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE DR. ERIKA POHL-STRÖHER (1919-2016)

JEAN-FRANÇOIS FAVRE

Geneva 1751 - 1807

PORTRAIT OF A GIRL HOLDING FLOWERS, 1777

Enamel on copper, gilt-metal frame, glazed reverse

Signed and dated verso

4.6 x 3.5 cm (unframed); 7.2 x 4.4 cm (framed)

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David David-Weill, 1936, inv. no. 4168, until 1936

Sir Charles Clore, London

Sotheby's London, 17th March 1986, lot 180

Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016) (purchased at the above sale by the current owner)

Henri Clouzot, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes sur émail, Paris, 1924, p. 78

Henri Clouzot, La miniature sur émail en France, Paris, 1928, p. 140

Louis Gillet / Carlo Jeannerat / Henri Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, no. 423

Jean-Claude Genoud, 100 ans de miniatures suisse 1780-1880, 1999, pp. 57, 60

Margareta Friesen, Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880, Darmstadt, 2001, p. 408, no. 145