LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Both bodycolour on vellum, later set in the lid and base of a tortoiseshell box with two colour gold mounts;

Size Notes:

The box: 29 by 72 mm.

Markings:

both signed and dated centre right: H. Sallembier / 1815

Literature:

Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 424, illust.

Provenance:

Gaston Le Breton, Rouen;; his executor's sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 8 December 1921, lot 265;; sale, London, Christie's, 8 December 1982, lot 21;; with Edwin Bucher, Trogan;; with Anna-Maria Wager, Munich, by 1983