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Lot Essay
The sitter married, in 1778, the French politician Etienne Narcisse de Durfort (1753-1839).
Details
Pierre Chasselat (French, 1753-1814)
Comtesse Etienne de Durfort, née Henriette Etiennette Claude Denise de Montsauge (1761-1823) in white dress, standing in a landscape
Signed ‘chasselat’ (upper left)
On ivory
71 mm. diam, gilt-metal mount within square red velvet frame and leather case, the reverse with paper label inscribed in pen ‘Comtesse Etienne / de Durfort / née de Montsauge’
Comtesse Etienne de Durfort, née Henriette Etiennette Claude Denise de Montsauge (1761-1823) in white dress, standing in a landscape
Signed ‘chasselat’ (upper left)
On ivory
71 mm. diam, gilt-metal mount within square red velvet frame and leather case, the reverse with paper label inscribed in pen ‘Comtesse Etienne / de Durfort / née de Montsauge’
Provenance
Maxime Hébert (1853-1945) Collection, Paris.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0273 and 120).
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0273 and 120).
Literature
Schidlof 1964, I, p. 142.
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