Lot Essay
Another version of the present miniature by Mosnier, unsigned and undated, is in the Louvre (see P. Jean-Richard, Miniatures sur ivoire. Musée du Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, p. 265, no. 476).
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Details
JEAN-LAURENT MOSNIER (FRENCH, 1743/1744 - 1808)
A young lady, seated and holding an oval portrait of a gentleman in red coat, wearing a blue dress and a lace-trimmed chemise, with piled and powdered hair; seated on a blue upholstered gilt chair; interior background
signed and dated 'Mosnier / 1781' (lower left)
on ivory
3 in. (76 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount
A young lady, seated and holding an oval portrait of a gentleman in red coat, wearing a blue dress and a lace-trimmed chemise, with piled and powdered hair; seated on a blue upholstered gilt chair; interior background
signed and dated 'Mosnier / 1781' (lower left)
on ivory
3 in. (76 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 2 March 1995, lot 30.
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