ADELAIDE LABILLE-GUIARD (FRENCH, 1749-1803)
Madame Charles Lefranc, in purple silk dress with lace cuffs and white-bordered gauze scarf tied at corsage, purple ribbon in her high-piled powdered curling hair, seated on a wooden chair with green cushion, painting her husband's portrait at an easel
signed and dated 'Labille Guiard 1779.' (lower left)
on ivory
2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) diam., ormolu frame with inner beaded border
ADELAIDE LABILLE-GUIARD (FRENCH, 1749-1803)
Madame Charles Lefranc, in purple silk dress with lace cuffs and white-bordered gauze scarf tied at corsage, purple ribbon in her high-piled powdered curling hair, seated on a wooden chair with green cushion, painting her husband's portrait at an easel
signed and dated 'Labille Guiard 1779.' (lower left)
on ivory
2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) diam., ormolu frame with inner beaded border
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