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Lot 126Y

24 May 2006, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £600 inc. premium

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French School (18th Century)

A Lady, wearing burgundy bodice under a loose white fichu, one breast exposed, a mauve hat decorated with a feather over her curled brown hair.
Gold frame, the obverse with mixed-cut ruby border, the reverse with engraved gold border around blue glass, the central aperture glazed to reveal gold letters, JID on plaited hair.
Oval, 71mm. (2 13/16ins.) high

Footnotes

The present lot appears to be loosely based on Greuze's portrait of a Bacchante (For a variant by Jean-Baptsiste Augustin, see Wallace Collection, no.168).

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