Lot 171: AIMEE-ZOE LIZINKA DE MIRBEL, NEE RUE (FRENCH, 1796-1849)

AIMEE-ZOE LIZINKA DE MIRBEL, NEE RUE (FRENCH, 1796-1849)
A young lady called Madame Bouclier, in décolleté black velvet dress with puffed sleeves and white underdress, her centre-parted fair hair tied in rolls; red curtain and landscape background
signed and dated 'Lizinka de Mirbel 1840' (mid-right)
on ivory
rectangular, 4 3/8 x 3 9/16 in. (111 x 91 mm.), cast gilt-metal frame

possibly Paris Salon, 1840, no. 1201/4 (as 'Mme B...').
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 607 (lent by Leo R. Schidlof).
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Chefs d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 302.
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 284.

E. Lemberger, Grosses Galeriewerk internationaler Meister der Miniaturmalerei, Munich 1910, I, no. 7.
L. R. Schidlof, Die Bildnisminiatur in Frankreich im XVII., XVIII. und XIX. Jahrhundert, Vienna and Leipzig 1911, p. 84 ('The best miniature by Mme. de Mirbel in private ownership which I know of highlights the collection of Frau Elfriede Schultz. It dates from the year 1840 and depicts Mme. Bouclier, a friend of Victor Hugo.').
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 562, illustrated IV, pl. 405, no. 828.
B. Hofstetter, Lizinka de Mirbel, unpublished M.A. thesis, Université de Bordeaux III, 1984, p. 100, no. 53.
Dictionary of Women Artists, London Chicago, 1997, II, p. 957.

with Elfriede Schultze, Berlin (1910 and 1911).
Leo R. Schidlof (1886-1966) Collection, Vienna, in 1924.
Christie's Geneva, 25 May 1993, lot 150.

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