Lot 86
  • 86

NICOLAS HALLÉ | Portrait a lady at a dressing table, circa 1787

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait a lady at a dressing table, circa 1787
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, set in the lid of a tortoiseshell box with gold mounts, maker's mark, Jacques Barrier, charge and discharge mark of Henri Clavel, date letter for 1787
  • 78 mm. Diam.

Provenance

Ernst Holzscheiter (1878-1962), Meilen;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 March 1977, lot 177 (as Augustin Dubourg);
sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 21 May 1992, lot 27 (as Augustin Dubourg)

Literature

Holzscheiter, 1961, pl. 10;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 406, pl. 120

Condition

Vertical crack at margin, 2mm from edge, otherwise fine work and condition.
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