Lot 778 D α

A portrait miniature of a young Empire lady.

Auction 1056 - overview Cologne
13.11.2015, 10:30 - Silver and Miniatures
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.240 € (incl. premium)

A portrait miniature of a young Empire lady.

Gouache on ivory in a gilt copper frame. A portrait miniature of a young Empire lady. Signed to the right above the shoulder: "Md. Vitry 1798". Diameter 7.4 cm.
Madame Vitry (active in France, late 18th C.), 1798.

Provenance

Collection Walter Moraw. Purchased 1986 from Kunsthandel Henninger-Tavcar, Pforzheim.

Literature

Mentioned in: Schidlof, Miniature in Europe, Graz 1964, vol. II, 856. Illus. in: BIV, p. 611, no. 1230. Also illus. in: Henninger-Tavcar, Miniaturporträts, 1995, p. 288.