
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.