Lot 80: ADELAIDE LABILLE-GUIARD (FRENCH, 1749-1803)

ADELAIDE LABILLE-GUIARD (FRENCH, 1749-1803)
A young lady, in fur-trimmed gold-shot umber satin hooded evening cape, pearl necklace with double-strand opening with drop-pearl, pearls and white satin ribbon adorning her piled-high powdered hair
signed and dated 'Guiard 1779' (lower left)
on ivory
oval, 2 in. (50 mm.) high, later gilt-metal mount

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Miniatures by this celebrated artist are extremely rare; the present portrait is unrecorded. For further information, see A. M. Passez, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Paris, 1973, and L. Auricchio, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution, Los Angeles, 2009.