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AUGUSTIN RITT | Portrait of a gentleman, circa 1790

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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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描述

  • Portrait of a gentleman, circa 1790
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold frame with split-pearl border, glazed reverse;signed centre left: Ritt
  • 5.5 by 4.5 cm.; 2 1/8 by 1 3/4 in.

來源

Hilde Frank, Leipzig;
Leo R. Schidlof (1886-1966), London, by 1956,
by family descent;
sale, Geneva, Christie's, 25 May 1993, lot 121

展覽

Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 374;
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 317

出版

G.N. Komelova, Augustin Ritt - Russian Miniaturist, St Petersburg, 2004, p. 166, no. 131

Condition

Overall good with some fading. Most minor scratched paint loss at boarder at 6 o'clock.
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