Lot 317: 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).
Paris, Louvre, Le décor de la vie à l'époque romantique 1820-1848, 1930, no. 661 (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 Schulz. 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.
Dictionary of Women Artists, London and Chicago, 1997, II, p. 957.

Elfriede Schulz Collection, Berlin (in 1910 and 1911).
Leo R. Schidlof (1886-1966) Collection, Vienna (in 1924 and 1930).
Christie's, Geneva, 25 May 1993, lot 150.
Bonhams, London, 21 November 1995, lot 155.