LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pastel

Measurements:

27.24 in. (69.20 cm.) (height) by 21.50 in. (54.60 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'M.G. Capet/An.9. [1800]'

Exhibited:

Paris, hôtel des Négociants en objets d'arts, Explication des peintres, gravures, miniatures et autres ouvrages de femmes peintres du XVIIIe siècle, 1926, number untraced.

Literature:

Comte A. Doria, Gabrielle Capet, Paris, 1934, no. 88, fig. 9. N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 86, illustrated.

Provenance:

The sitter; by whom bequeathed to his steward. François Ménard; by whom bequeathed to. Henri Philippe. with Galerie Cailleux, Paris, Un choix de pastels des maîtres français du XVIIIe siècles, June 1923. Baron Eugène Fould-Springer; and by descent to his widow. Marie-Cécile von Springer, later Mrs Frank Wooster, by 1934.