JEAN-LAURENT MOSNIER (FRENCH, 1743/1744 - 1808)
A young lady, in lace-trimmed white satin robe à la polonaise adorned with blue silk bows, white ostrich feathers, black aigrette, pink roses and leaves in her high-piled powdered hair, seated at a Louis XVI table arranged with blue silk drapery, a book and a vase with flowers, her arms resting on a drawing paper, holding a pencil, easel with a sketch in the background
dated '1776' (mid-left)
on ivory
2.7/8 in. (72 mm.) diam., two-colour gold mount chased with a laurel and berry border
JEAN-LAURENT MOSNIER (FRENCH, 1743/1744 - 1808)
A young lady, in lace-trimmed white satin robe à la polonaise adorned with blue silk bows, white ostrich feathers, black aigrette, pink roses and leaves in her high-piled powdered hair, seated at a Louis XVI table arranged with blue silk drapery, a book and a vase with flowers, her arms resting on a drawing paper, holding a pencil, easel with a sketch in the background
dated '1776' (mid-left)
on ivory
2.7/8 in. (72 mm.) diam., two-colour gold mount chased with a laurel and berry border
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