Lot 136
  • 136

CHARLES HÉNARD | Portrait of a lady, circa 1795

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait of a lady, circa 1795
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, ormolu frame
  • 134 by 101 mm.

Provenance

Consul Eugen Gutmann (d. 1925), Berlin, by 1906;
sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 12 November 1980, lot 223

Exhibited

Berlin, 1906, no. 296 

Literature

Von Falke (ed.), 1912, p. 97, no. 307, pl. 71;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 410, no. 165

Condition

Strong colours and in good order.
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