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Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)

Antoine Vestier

Portrait of a lady

Lot Closed

December 9, 05:02 PM GMT

Estimate

400 - 600 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)

Antoine Vestier

Avallon 1740 - 1824 Paris

Portrait of a lady


watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal mount;

signed and dated lower right: Vestier fecit 1781

6.1 cm. Diam.; 2½ in. Diam.

Montesquiou Fezensac, Schloss Courtanvaux;
Comtesse Odon de Montesquiou Fezensac;
Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 23-24 December 1929, no. 304;
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 May 1980, lot 63
A.-M. Passez, Antoine Vestier, Paris 1989, p. 280, no. 184;
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris 2008, p. 521