Lot 81
  • 81

FRANÇOIS DUMONT | Portrait of a young girl, circa 1785

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • François Dumont
  • Portrait of a young girl, circa 1785
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, two-coloured gold mount, with pearl boarder;signed centre right: Dumont f.
  • 50 by 40 mm.

Provenance

Edouard Warneck, Paris;
his executor's sale, Vienna, Leo Schidlof, 19 November 1924, lot 51;
sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 17 November 1988, lot 328

Exhibited

Vienna, 1924, no. 288

Literature

Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 407, pl. 135;
du Pasquier, 2010, p. 112, illust. p. 113

Condition

A few flecks of white highlights on sleeve, some water damage running on margin from mid-day to 4 o'clock (slightly running in to signature).
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