Lot 235: CHRISTIAN HORNEMAN (DANISH, 1765-1844)

A young lady called Ernestine de Bourgoing in profile to the left, in lace-bordered white silk dress, red stole draped over her right shoulder and under her left arm, pearl necklace, black ribbon headband in her upswept curled and plaited light brown hair
signed and dated 'Horneman 1818' (lower left)
rectangular, 2 7/8 x 2 7/16 in. (72 x 63 mm.), gilt-metal mount

Horst Fasold; Sotheby's, Geneva, 6 May 1981, lot 58.

It has been suggested that the sitter is Ernestine Thérèse Gasparine de Bourgoing (1789-1825), who married French Marshal MacDonald, Duke of Tarentum, as his third wife, on 25 September 1821.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.