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Lot 40: Jean-Antoine Laurent (French, 1763-1832)

Est: £3,000 GBP - £5,000 GBP
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 04, 2018

Item Overview

Description

JEAN-ANTOINE LAURENT (FRENCH, 1763-1832) A lady in white dress, seated in a landscape with a church, holding a riding crop Signed with initial and dated ‘L 1791’ (lower left) On ivory Rectangular, 80 x 80 mm. gilt-metal mount, a paper label on the reverse inscribed in pen ‘M. P. Claude / de Boisé, / Ctesse de Méry’

Provenance

PROVENANCE: With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in Paris, 5 January 1936 (inv. nos. MD/0093 and 349). The sitter is possibly Catherine Constance de Bonnault de Méry (d. 1841) who married Claude Guillaume de Boisé de Courcenay (d. 1810).

Auction Details

Treasured Portraits from the Collection of Ernst Holzscheite

by
Christie's
July 04, 2018, 11:00 AM BST

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK