LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Miniature on Ivory
Size Notes:
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Markings:
Signed and dated 'Mlle. deNoireterre 95' (mid-left), the gold mount stamped with the décharge of Jean-Baptiste Fouache, 1774-1780
Exhibited:
Arenenberg 1954, no. 31. Geneva 1956, no. 321.
Literature:
Finet 1932, illustrated p. 175, no. 3 (then owned by ‘collection Hébert’), described p. 178 as ‘as small masterwork’ and as ‘certainly Mlle de Noireterre’s masterpiece’. Lemoine-Bouchard 2008, p. 402. Exhibition catalogue Caen 2014, illustrated p. 42, fig. 5.
Provenance:
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3-4 February 1930, lot 94. Maxime Hébert (1853-1945) Collection, Paris (inv. no. 2086), by 1932. With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 11 February 1953 (inv. nos. MD/0599 and 417).