Lot 125
  • 125

JEAN PIERRE THIBOUST | Portrait of a mother and child

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait of a mother and child
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame;signed and dated lower right: Thiboust / 1798
  • 73 mm. Diam.

Provenance

Maxime Hébert (1853-1945), Paris;
with Leo R. Schidlof (1886-1966), by 1957;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 11 March 1985, lot 158

Literature

Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 428, no. 356

Condition

From 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock there is a curious zone of shading which is more likely to be artist's pediment then re-touching.
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