Lot n° 129
Madame Sauveige in lace-bordered white dress and lace bonnet in her curling hair; the young girl in white dress with white ribbon in her short dark hair; foliate background with a lake and buildings beyond.
Diam. 7,3cm gilt-metal frame
Cf. le deuxième livre d'honoraires de l'artiste, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fondation Jacques Doucet, folio 11, 10-20 janv. 1790 : "Mde Sauveige et une jeune Dlle 35 (Louis d'or)"
A young lady in a woodland landscape cutting pink roses - Miniature sur ivoire signée
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Lot n° 425
This lady in blue-bordered white dress with striped muslin layer, blue sash tied around waist with a bow at the back, blue ribbon in her partly upswept powdered curling hair; tree and foliate landscape background
Diam. 7,2cm gilt-metal mount later applied with pierced silver foliate surround set with diamonds
A young lady, in lace-collared white dress with lilac surcoat - Miniature sur ivoire signée
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Lot n° 326
This young lady, in lace-collared white dress with lilac surcoat, cream bonnet tied with white ribbon under her chin, the bonnet decorated with lilac wisteria; sky background.
Miniature ovale H. 4,2cm
Gilt-metal frame with split-pearl surround, the glazed reverse with elaborate locks of hair, in later double-hinged brown leather case
Provenance : Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 13 November 1958, lot 732.
Dorotheum, Vienna, 6 June 1961, lot 198.
Ferdinand IV (1751-1825), King of Naples and the Two-Sicilies 1759-1825, in blue coat with red collar - Miniature sur ivoire signée
Descriptif:
Lot n° 283
Ferdinand IV is wearing the breast-star of the Royal Neapolitan Order of St Januarius, the red badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece and other orders.
Miniature ovale H. 53mm
Silver frame, the border engraved 'Fernando IV Rey de Napoles a la Sra Doña Josefa Ceballos y Alvarez de Faria Marquesa de Espeja', coronet surmount, mother-of-pearl reverse.
A young lady, seated, in décolleté white silk and lilac muslin dress, revealing right breast - Miniature sur ivoire signée
Descriptif:
Lot n° 345
This young lady wears gold armlet and bracelet, holding a letter in her right hand inscribed 'Italie en 1800', her left arm resting on a burnt-orange Cashmere shawl draped over the back of her elaborately carved sofa, a harp in the background
Diam. 78mm
Provenance : De la Hey Collection; part I, Sotheby's, London, 27 May 1968, lot 39 (£400 to Agnew).
With Sotirio Bulgari, Rome.
