Lot 97
  • 97

PIERRE ADOLPHE HALL | Portrait of a young lady, circa 1785

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hall
  • Portrait of a young lady, circa 1785
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, ormolu frame
  • 79 by 64 mm.

Provenance

Leo R. Schidlof (d. 1966), London, by 1956;
by descent until;
sale, Geneva, Christie's, 16 May 1995, lot 166

Exhibited

Geneva, 1956, no. 193, pl. 13;
Vienna, 1965, no. 188

Literature

Schidlof, 1964, vol. I, p. 339, vol. II, p. 988, no. 437, vol. III, pl. 261, no. 510;
De Plinval de Guillebon, 2000, no. 102, p. 119, illust.

Condition

Overall very good. Please line of glue, 7mm, just inside margin at 8 o'clock (only invisible in some lights)
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