Circle of Jean-Etienne Liotard, Portrait of a seated lady in a venetian carnival costume, holding a fan. Photo Sotheby's
gouache on paper; 2 5/8 in; by 2 in.; 6.7 by 5.2 cm. Estimation: 10,000 - 15,000 USD
PROVENANCE
Baron Meyer de Rothschild;
Thence by descent in the Rothschild and Rosebery Collection, Mentmore;
Their sale ("The Property of the Rosebery Family Trust"), London, Sotheby's 11 February 1999, lot 102 (as Italian School, in the manner of Liotard, circa 1750);
With Gallery Lavender, London, 2001.
LITTERATURE: Mentmore Catalogue, compiled by Hannah de Rothschild, Countess of Rosebery, Edinburgh 1884, Vol. II, p. 21, cat.
no. 200 (as "Portrait of a lady, name unknown [Blarenberghe Room]");
M. Roethlisberger and R. Loche, Liotard, Catalogue, Sources et Correspondance, Doornspijk 2008, Vol. I, p. 358,
under cat. 153 (as a modified copy in miniature of the Portrait of Madame Joseph Bouër).
NOTE DE CATALOGUE
This miniature painting is based on Liotard's Portrait of Madame Joseph Bouër (signed and dated 1746, pastel on parchment, 62.8 by 49 cm.) in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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