Madame Sauveige, seated in a landscape, her arms around a young girl in her lap
Madame Sauveige, seated in a landscape, her arms around a young girl in her lap - Miniature sur ivoire signée
Technique:
Lot n° 430
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
Provenance : Christie's, London, 28 May 2002, lot 29.
Littérature : The artist's second fee book (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fondation Jacques Doucet, MS. 104), folio 11 (between 10 and 20 January 1790): 'Mde Sauveige et une jeune Dlle 35' [louis d'or].