LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold mount;

Size Notes:

67 mm. Diam.

Markings:

signed and dated lower left: M.G. Capet / 1784 VI.

Exhibited:

Paris, 1926, no. 5 (lent by David David-Weill);; Paris, 1985, no. 52 (lent by Pierre de Ragaini)

Literature:

Doria, 1934, p. 78, no. 65, fig. 21, illust.;; Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 401, illust.;; Lemoine-Bouchard, 2008, p. 138;; Marcheteau de Quinçay et al., 2014, pp. 14-15, illust.

Provenance:

David David-Weill (d. 1952), by 1926;; Pierre de Ragaini, Paris, by 1985;; sale, Geneva, Christie's, 16 November 1993, lot 192