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ADELAIDE LABILLE-GUIARD (FRENCH, 1749-1803)
Madame Charles Lefranc, in purple silk dress with lace cuffs and white-bordered gauze scarf tied at corsage, purple ribbon in her high-piled powdered curling hair, seated on a wooden chair with green cushion, painting her husband's portrait at an easel
signed and dated 'Labille Guiard 1779.' (lower left)
on ivory
2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) diam., ormolu frame with inner beaded border
Madame Charles Lefranc, in purple silk dress with lace cuffs and white-bordered gauze scarf tied at corsage, purple ribbon in her high-piled powdered curling hair, seated on a wooden chair with green cushion, painting her husband's portrait at an easel
signed and dated 'Labille Guiard 1779.' (lower left)
on ivory
2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) diam., ormolu frame with inner beaded border
Provenance
Eugène Pap (1910-2006) Collection, Paris; Christie's, London, 24 May 2000, lot 82.
Literature
L. Mouillefarine, 'La peinture en miniature', Figaro Madame, 30 March 1985, no. 12621, illustrated in colour p. 22.
A. L. Luquet de Saint-Germain, 'La miniature n'est pas morte', Trouvailles, April May 1987, no. 63, illustrated p. 67.
Exhibition catalogue Bordeaux, Musée des Arts décoratifs Geneva, Musée de l'Horlogerie Paris, Musée du Louvre, L'âge d'or du petit portrait, 1995-1996, illustrated in colour p. 19, fig. 6.
L. Auricchio, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Artist in the Age of Revolution, Los Angeles, 2009, p. 121, no. A6, illustrated in colour p. 17, fig. 8.
A. L. Luquet de Saint-Germain, 'La miniature n'est pas morte', Trouvailles, April May 1987, no. 63, illustrated p. 67.
Exhibition catalogue Bordeaux, Musée des Arts décoratifs Geneva, Musée de l'Horlogerie Paris, Musée du Louvre, L'âge d'or du petit portrait, 1995-1996, illustrated in colour p. 19, fig. 6.
L. Auricchio, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Artist in the Age of Revolution, Los Angeles, 2009, p. 121, no. A6, illustrated in colour p. 17, fig. 8.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Marigny, Miniatures du XVIe au XIXe siècle, 1985, no. 84, illustrated p. 19, pl. V.
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