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

Alfred Edward Chalon, R.A.

Portrait of a lady, circa 1830

Lot Closed

December 9, 06:39 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

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

Alfred Edward Chalon, R.A.

Geneva 1780 - 1860 London

Portrait of a lady, circa 1830


watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal mount, gilt-wood frame;

signed and dated verso: by / A. E. Chalon R. A. / […] / 38 Fitzroy Sq.

16.5 by 12 cm., 6½ by 4¾ in.

Sale, Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, 29 August 1934, lot 1417;
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen (d. 1962);
His descendance sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 May 1980, lot 17
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 70
P.F. Schneeberger, Miniatures genevoises de la collection E. Holzcheiter, Geneva 1960, p. 240, no. 9;
L.R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz 1964, vol. I, p. 143, vol. II, p. 950, no. 209