Old Master & British Works on Paper

Old Master & British Works on Paper

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Circle of Jean-Etienne Liotard

Portrait of an old Lady, seated, holding a book

Lot Closed

July 6, 03:38 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Circle of Jean-Etienne Liotard

Portrait of an old Lady, seated, holding a book


Pastel;

bears signature and date upper right: Liotard / 1786 and also bears attribution, centre left: Liotard

465 by 370 mm (sight size)

Monsieur H. Geering, Nassackerstrasse, Schlieren;

Sale, Bern, Galerie Dobiaschofsky, 17 October 1974, lot 408,

where purchased by Jacques-Louis Isoz

J.M. Marquis, 'Fréquence Pastel. Une Collection de Pastels du XVIIIe siècle', in Connaissance des Arts, Supplément Suisse, March 1990, p. XV, reproduced (as Liotard);

N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London 2006, p. 353; online edition, no. J.49. 2514 (as Attributed (?) to Liotard)