Continental School (19th Century), Two Portrait Miniatures of Women in Fancy Hats
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Continental School (19th Century), Two Portrait Miniatures of Women in Fancy Hats
second quarter 19th century, watercolor on , unsigned, the first of a dark-haired woman with bejeweled tiara and necklace, wearing a purple dress on a blue ground, presented behind beveled glass in a gilt rectangular locket, with classical figural eglomise panel en verso (frame 2 1/8 x 1 5/8 in.); the second of a dark-haired woman wearing a tall hat on mauve ground, identified via the ink inscription to verso backing as Marie Benoit / Epouse de Jean Hostin (?) / morte en 1840 / a lage de 59 ano, presented in a rectangular locket frame (frame 2 5/8 in. x 1 7/8 in.).
Collection of a Gentleman
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second quarter 19th century, watercolor on , unsigned, the first of a dark-haired woman with bejeweled tiara and necklace, wearing a purple dress on a blue ground, presented behind beveled glass in a gilt rectangular locket, with classical figural eglomise panel en verso (frame 2 1/8 x 1 5/8 in.); the second of a dark-haired woman wearing a tall hat on mauve ground, identified via the ink inscription to verso backing as Marie Benoit / Epouse de Jean Hostin (?) / morte en 1840 / a lage de 59 ano, presented in a rectangular locket frame (frame 2 5/8 in. x 1 7/8 in.).
Collection of a Gentleman
Additional high-resolution photos are available at www.lelandlittle.com
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Some light edge wear to perimeter of ivory wafers; some areas of loss to eglomise backing; area of loss to verso glass on behind mauve portrait.
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Continental School (19th Century), Two Portrait Miniatures of Women in Fancy Hats
Estimate $50 - $25,000
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