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CÉCILE VILLENEUVE | Portrait of Germaine Roussel, later Duchesse d'Elchingen, Princesse de La Moskowa (1873-1930)

Lot Closed

May 7, 04:18 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

CÉCILE VILLENEUVE

Paris 1824 - 1901

PORTRAIT OF GERMAINE ROUSSEL, LATER DUCHESSE D'ELCHINGEN, PRINCESSE DE LA MOSKOWA (1873-1930)


Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame, with ribbon-tie surmount;

signed lower right: Cécile Villeneuve;

inscribed on backing card: Germaine Roussel / - Paris 1876


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Günther Muthmann, Wuppertal-Barmen;

sale, Zurich, Sotheby's, 13 Novemeber 1979, lot 96

M. Friesen, Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880, Darmstadt, 2001, p. 429, fig. 365

The sitter married in 1902 Charles Aloys Jean Gabriel Ney, 4th Duc d'Elchingen (1873-1933), later 5th Prince de La Moskowa.