Vente aux enchères en direct 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
AFTER FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)
Lot 223

AFTER FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)

Fermé20 November 2013

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GBP 875

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AFTER FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)
A young lady, in white dress with blue sash around her waist and white headscarf in her brown curly hair, playing a harpsichord; landscape and pillar background
on ivory
2.7/8 in. (72 mm.) diam, gilt-metal frame, inscribed on reverse in modern ink, 'Mme Royale / voir la Louis XVII / de François Laurentie / no 56.'

Jacques-Bertrand-Marie-Joseph-Armand-Nompar de Caumont la Force, 13th Duc de la Force (1912-1985); (+) Christie's London, 24 May 2000, lot 183.
Alain Bancel Collection, Paris; (+) Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 May 2003, lot 316.

Note du spécialiste

Two other versions of the present miniature were sold; Sotheby's, London, 5 March 1998, lot 7; another was in the collection of Lucien and Hélène Mellerio, sold Paris, Four Seasons Hôtel George V, Etude Tajan, 20 June 2001, lot 5.