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Materials:
on ivory
Size Notes:
oval
Description:
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Markings:
signed and dated 'Autissier pt à Paris. 1818.' (lower right); case cover stamped with gilt Gothic intials GLK and gilt border
Condition:
within rectangular green plush-lined red leather case
Exhibited:
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 22. Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, no. 23, illustrated pl. 5 (erroneously as dated 1819).
Literature:
L. R. Schidlof, Die Bildnisminiatur in Frankreich, Vienna and Leipzig, 1911, p. 94. L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, pp. 55-56 (as 'a masterpiece'), II, p. 911 (erroneously as dated 1819), illustrated III, pl. 28, no. 25.
Provenance:
Maxime Hébert (1853-1945) Collection, Paris.