Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

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Gérard de Lairesse

A lovesick young woman seated beneath a tree, contemplating Cupid who sits beside her

Lot Closed

December 4, 02:47 PM GMT

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Gérard de Lairesse

Liège 1640 - 1711 Amsterdam

A lovesick young woman seated beneath a tree, contemplating Cupid who sits beside her


Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash, over black chalk

207 by 170 mm

Aubrey Beese, from whom acquired in 1957 by
Michael Ingram, (bears his mark not in Lugt, on the mount),
by whose executors sold, London, Sotheby's, The Ingram Collection: Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of the Late Michael Ingram, 8 December 2005, lot 74;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2016, lot 279