拍品 312
  • 312

AUGUSTIN RITT | Portrait of a lady, circa 1790

估價
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
招標截止

描述

  • Portrait of a lady, circa 1790
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal mount
  • 6.8 mm.; 2 3/4 in. diameter

來源

David David-Weill (1871-1952), inv. no. 673;
with Wildenstein, Paris;
Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London;
his executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 November 1986, lot 65;
with Edwin Bucher, Trogen

展覽

London, Garrard, An Exhibition of Important 18th Century & Early 19th Century Miniatures and Enamels, 1961, no. 165

出版

L. Gillet, C. Jeannerat, H. Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, pp. 266-67, no. 165;
G.N. Komelova, Augustin Ritt - Russian Miniaturist, St Petersburg, 2004, p. 167, no. 142

Condition

The miniature is in very good order. There are one or two tiny areas of pigment loss, but these are insignificant and can only be seen under extreme magnification.
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