Old Master & British Works on Paper
Old Master & British Works on Paper
Circle of Jean-Etienne Liotard
Portrait of an old Lady, seated, holding a book
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July 6, 03:38 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
Circle of Jean-Etienne Liotard
Portrait of an old Lady, seated, holding a book
Pastel;
bears signature and date upper right: Liotard / 1786 and also bears attribution, centre left: Liotard
465 by 370 mm (sight size)
Monsieur H. Geering, Nassackerstrasse, Schlieren;
Sale, Bern, Galerie Dobiaschofsky, 17 October 1974, lot 408,
where purchased by Jacques-Louis Isoz
J.M. Marquis, 'Fréquence Pastel. Une Collection de Pastels du XVIIIe siècle', in Connaissance des Arts, Supplément Suisse, March 1990, p. XV, reproduced (as Liotard);
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London 2006, p. 353; online edition, no. J.49. 2514 (as Attributed (?) to Liotard)