LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Enamel, gold frame

Measurements:

2.48 in. (6.30 cm.) (height) by 2.01 in. (5.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, dated and inscribed verso: MECENE / DU NORD. / N. Soret p. xt / 1793

Exhibited:

London, Garrard, . An Exhibition of Important 18 th Century & Early 19 th Century Miniatures and Enamels, 1961, no. 360;. Lausanne, Musée Historique, . 100 Ans de Miniatures Suisses 1780-1880, 1999-2000, no. 22

Literature:

L. Gillet, C. Jeannerat, H. Clouzot, . Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, p. 500, no. 360, illust. p. 501;. G. Komelova, . Russian Miniatures and Enamels XVIII XIX Centuries, Leningrad, 1995, pp. 274-275, pl. 101;. M. Friesen (ed.), . Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880, Darmstadt, 2001, p. 427, illust. p. 342

Provenance:

David David-Weill (1871-1952), inv. no. 3173;. with Wildenstein, Paris;. Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London;. his executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 November 1986, lot 170