LOT DETAILS
Materials:
watercolor on ivory
Size Notes:
oval
Markings:
signed 'J. de Vivien' (mid left)
Condition:
rectangular ormolu frame with shell spandrels
Literature:
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, Russkie portrety [..], St. Petersburg, 1905-1909, II, no. 121, illustrated. L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 856 (as 'very good').
Provenance:
The Collection of Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov (1859-1919), in 1906. George Hess Collection, Berlin; (+) Sotheby's, London, 27 June 1977, lot 48. With Edwin Bucher, Trogen.