ANDRE LÉON LARUE, CALLED MANSION (FRENCH, 1785 - AFTER 1837)
Lot 192

ANDRE LÉON LARUE, CALLED MANSION (FRENCH, 1785 - AFTER 1837)

Closed20 November 2013

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GBP 11,250

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ANDRE LÉON LARUE, CALLED MANSION (FRENCH, 1785 - AFTER 1837)
A young lady called Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), in white dress, striped shawl around her shoulders, drop-pearl earring, three strings of pearls around her head beneath a wreath of yellow roses; curtain background
signed 'Mansion' (lower mid-left)
on ivory
oval, 5 in. (128 mm.) high, rectangular gilt-metal frame with foliate spandrels

With Anna-Maria Wager, Munich.
With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., in 2001 (as Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress Josephine).