Lot 127
  • 127

FRANÇOIS ANTOINE ROMANY | Portrait of two sisters, circa 1795

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait of two sisters, circa 1795
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, ormolu frame;bears signature: Hall
  • 105 mm. Diam.

Provenance

Sale, Luzern, Galerie Fischer, 7 September 1935, lot 1783;
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, by 1956,
sale, London, Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1986, lot 40

Exhibited

Geneva, 1956, no. 380 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter)

Literature

Schidlof, 1964, vol. II, pp. 709, 1054, plate 495, no. 1013;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 423, no. 294

Condition

Minor re-touching near margin at 8 o'clock, otherwise fine.
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