Lot 341: DANIEL SAINT (FRENCH, 1778-1847)

DANIEL SAINT (FRENCH, 1778-1847)
A child, in white off-the-shoulders dress with pink sash, holding a bouquet of flowers, fair hair dressed in ringlets; landscape background
signed 'Saint.' (mid-left)
on ivory (artist's joins)
rectangular, 4 x 3 3/16 in. (101 x 81 mm.), gilt-metal mount with stamped surround

Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 391 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter).

L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 711 (as 'excellent'), p. 1037, no. 1041, illustrated IV, pl. 508, no. 1041.

Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen, inv. no. MD/173; part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March, 1977, lot 106.