Lot 48
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Marie-Thérèse de Noireterre (French, 1760-1823)
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Marie-Thérèse de Noireterre (French, 1760-1823)

Details
Marie-Thérèse de Noireterre (French, 1760-1823)
A self-portrait of the artist in green dress, seated next to her paint box
Signed and dated ‘Mlle. deNoireterre 95’ (mid-left)
On ivory
75 mm. diam., gold mount, set on the cover of a tortoiseshell bonbonnière, the gold mount stamped with the décharge of Jean-Baptiste Fouache, 1774-1780
Provenance
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3-4 February 1930, lot 94.
Maxime Hébert (1853-1945) Collection, Paris (inv. no. 2086), by 1932.
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 11 February 1953 (inv. nos. MD/0599 and 417).
Literature
Finet 1932, illustrated p. 175, no. 3 (then owned by ‘collection Hébert’), described p. 178 as ‘as small masterwork’ and as ‘certainly Mlle de Noireterre’s masterpiece’.
Lemoine-Bouchard 2008, p. 402.
Exhibition catalogue Caen 2014, illustrated p. 42, fig. 5.
Exhibited
Arenenberg 1954, no. 31.
Geneva 1956, no. 321.
Special Notice
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Lot Essay

The sitter was a portrait miniature painter and a student of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. She is thought to have also worked in pastel but only her portrait miniatures have survived or are recorded. She was accepted into the Society of Artists in 1785 on the basis of a self-portrait.

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