Lot 238: A young lady, in low-cut white dress revealing her left breast, a diaphanous veil falling from her dark ringlets and over her left shoulder

JEAN-BAPTISTE SINGRY (FRENCH, 1782-1824)
A young lady, in low-cut white dress revealing her left breast, a diaphanous veil falling from her dark ringlets and over her left shoulder
signed and dated 'Singry 1815.' (mid-left)
oval, 1 15/16 in. (50 mm.) high, stamped rectangular gold mount on a black tortoiseshell snuff-box, by Nicolas Lecoufle (fl. 1809-1830), marked, and L. A. Baudin (fl. c. 1810), marked, Paris, 1809-1819, the box 2 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. (80 x 53 mm.), in fitted blue leather case (2)

Mrs. Dames Longworth; (+), Christie's, London, 11 December 1933, lot 126 (£ 21 to Burton Jones).
Sotheby's, Geneva, 17 May 1984, lot 435.
Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 May 1985, lot 136.
Bolland & Marotz, Bremen, 14 October 1985.