Lot 104: AMÉLIE DE LACÉPÈDE, NÉE COUNTESS KAUTZ (FRENCH, 1796-1860)

AMÉLIE DE LACÉPÈDE, NÉE COUNTESS KAUTZ (FRENCH, 1796-1860)
A young girl, in white dress with blue sash around waist, fair hair dressed in ringlets; sky background
signed 'Amélie de Lacépède' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 2 1/8 in. (53 mm.) high, paste-set pierced silver frame with trellis and flower panel reverse

Barcelona, Palacio de la Virreina, Exposición de miniaturas-retrato españolas y extranjeras siglos XVI-XIX, 1956, no. 731 (lent by Domingo Carles).

Domingo Carles, Barcelona, in 1956.

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