
Auction Closed
December 5, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
R*** MAISARS
Fl. circa 1770
PORTRAIT OF GASPARD ANTOINE, COUNT PRÉVOST DE LA CROIX
Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, silver-gilt open-work frame, set with glass pastes, ribbon tie suspension loop;
signed and dated verso: R. Maisars 1774
34 by 26 mm.
By descent to Baron Othon de Bourgoing, Vienna, by 1925;
sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 14 November 1985, lot 204
De Bourgoing, 1925, no. 25, pp. 6, 77, illust.;
Schidlof, 1964, vol. II, p. 540;
Lemoine-Bouchard, 2008, p. 365
The sitter wears the French Order of Saint Louis.