Lot 150
  • 150

LOUIS LIÉ PÉRIN-SALBREUX | Portrait of a gentleman, circa 1800

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait of a gentleman, circa 1800
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold frame;signed lower right: Perin
  • 68 mm. Diam.

Provenance

Albert Jaffé (d. 1904), Hamburg;
Hermann Emden, Hamburg;
his sale, Berlin, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 3 May 1911, lot 277;
Siegmund Seligmann (d. 1925), Hanover, by 1918;
sale, Viennese Miniatures Collection, Luzern, Auktion Galerie Fischer, 25-29 July 1957, lot 894;
sale, Geneva, Christie's, 14 May 1985, lot 74;
with Edwin Bucher, Trogen, by 1986

Exhibited

Berlin, 1906, no. 1235;
Hannover, 1918, no. 239

Literature

Jaffé, 1900, pl. 37;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 421, no. 280

Condition

Overall good, save for some very minor flacking in the sky.
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