JEAN-ANTOINE LAURENT (1763-1832)
THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN
JEAN-ANTOINE LAURENT (1763-1832)

A young lady, full length holding an olive branch, standing before a tree in a wooded landscape; in white dress sprigged with blue flowers, fichu stole, lace-bordered white bonnet with blue ribbon in her curling powdered hair; foliate background with wooden punt on a river

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JEAN-ANTOINE LAURENT (1763-1832)
A young lady, full length holding an olive branch, standing before a tree in a wooded landscape; in white dress sprigged with blue flowers, fichu stole, lace-bordered white bonnet with blue ribbon in her curling powdered hair; foliate background with wooden punt on a river
signed with initial 'L' (mid-right)
rectangular, 7 x 5 3/8 in. (176 x 134 mm.), later ormolu frame with outer beaded border and pierced ribbon and tie surmount
Literature
L. Mouillefarine, "La peinture en miniature", Figaro Madame, no. 12621, 30 March 1985, illustrated in colour p. 22.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Marigny, Miniatures du XVI. au XIX. siècle, 1985, no. 85, illustrated p. 23 pl. IX.
Paris, Louvre des Antiquaires, Galerie Nicole Kramer, Objets d'une Passion, 1992/1993, no. 18.
Nancy, Musée Historique, Couvent des Cordeliers, La miniature en Lorraine, 1993/1994, no. 154.

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