LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory

Size Notes:

The miniature: 74 by 52 mm.; The wallet width: 153 mm.

Markings:

Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold mount with enamelled inscription: Neé [sic] le 14 Juin 1777. Decedeé [sic] le 28 Dec: 1797, set in a red morocco leather wallet, with gold clasp

Exhibited:

Geneva, 1956, no. 429 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter)

Literature:

Schidlof, 1964, vol. II, p. 1071, vol. IV, no. 1139, pl. 559

Provenance:

Pieter Schmidt van Gelder (d. 1956), Antwerp;; Ernst Holzscheiter (d. 1962), Meilen, by 1956;; sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 June 1986, lot 63