Lot 168
  • 168

PAOLO FERDINANDO QUAGLIA | Portrait of a lady, circa 1810

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Quaglia
  • Portrait of a lady, circa 1810
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame;signed centre right: Quaglia f.
  • 69 by 35 mm.

Provenance

Leo R. Schidlof (d. 1966), Vienna and London, by 1924;
by family descent until;
sale, Geneva, Christie's, 25 May 1993, lot 137

Exhibited

Vienna, 1924, no. 694;
Geneva, 1956, no. 369;
Vienna, 1965, no. 310

Literature

Schidlof, 1964, vol. II, p. 674;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 422, no. 289;
Parisio, 2012, pp. 36-37, 60, no. 36, pl. XII

Condition

The work is in very good condition.
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