Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)
Louis Marie Sicardi
Portrait of a lady
Lot Closed
December 9, 05:05 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)
Louis Marie Sicardi
Avignon 1746 - 1825 Paris
Portrait of a lady
watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal mounts, set in the lid of a tortoiseshell-lined poudre-d'écaille box, with piqué decoration, the base with central hair reserve set with open-work initials;
signed lower right: Sicardi / 1782
5 by 4.1 cm., 2⅛ by 1¾ in.
Edouard Warneck, Paris;
His sale, Vienna, Leo Schidlof's Auction House, 11 April 1924, lot 86;
Sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 14 November 1984, lot 358
His sale, Vienna, Leo Schidlof's Auction House, 11 April 1924, lot 86;
Sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 14 November 1984, lot 358
L. R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz 1964, vol. II, p. 772;
M. Friesen, Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880, Darmstadt 2001, p. 425, no. 325;
M. Lauraine, Louis Marie Sicard, dit Sicardi (1743-1825), Peintre miniaturiste. Biographie, France 2005, p. 113, no. 86
M. Friesen, Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880, Darmstadt 2001, p. 425, no. 325;
M. Lauraine, Louis Marie Sicard, dit Sicardi (1743-1825), Peintre miniaturiste. Biographie, France 2005, p. 113, no. 86