LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolor and bodycolor on vellum, chased gold mount

Measurements:

1.89 in. (4.80 cm.) (height) by 2.80 in. (7.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

maker's mark MPL in a lozenge, engraved: Vachette A Paris, 1798-1809; signed and dated lower right: De Lioux. De. Savignac. 1772, further signed on the backing card: De Lioux. De Savignac / pinxit. 1772 / desous

Condition:

later set in the lid of a rectangular tortoiseshell snuff box

Exhibited:

London, 1961, no. 142

Literature:

Gillet, . et al. , Paris, 1957, p. 236, no. 142, illust. p. 237;. Schidlof, 1964, vol. I, p. 524, vol. II, p. 1020, vol. IV, pl. 360, no. 756;. Lemoine-Bouchard, 2002, p. 117;. Lemoine-Bouchard, 2008, p. 358

Provenance:

David David-Weill (1871-1952), inv. no. 591, until 1936;. with Wildenstein, Paris;. Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London;. his executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 June 1986, lot 70