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Aimée-Zoë Lizinka de Mirbel, née Rue (French, 1796-1849)
A lady in black dress wearing a turban
Signed ‘Lizinka de Mirbel’ (mid-right)
On ivory
Oval, 80 mm. high, rectangular gilt-bronze frame
A lady in black dress wearing a turban
Signed ‘Lizinka de Mirbel’ (mid-right)
On ivory
Oval, 80 mm. high, rectangular gilt-bronze frame
Provenance
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in Paris, 3 January 1937 (inv. nos. MD/0122 and 396).
Literature
Schidlof 1964, II, pp. 562 and 1009, illustrated IV, pl. 405, fig. 829.
Exhibited
Arenenberg 1954, no. 30.
Geneva 1956, no. 303.
Geneva 1956, no. 303.
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