Lot 210: Daniel Saint (French, 1778-1847) Colette de Reiset, Baronne de Beuronville (1805-1833), wearing white dress with salmon-pink ribbon waistband and pink roses in her hair, landscape background

Colette de Reiset, Baronne de Beuronville (1805-1833), wearing white dress with salmon-pink ribbon waistband and pink roses in her hair, landscape background.
Signed on the obverse Saint, ormolu mount.
Oval, 83mm (3 1/4in) high
Provenance: The Albion Collection, Bonhams, 22 April 2004, lot 148
Exhibited: The Albion Loan Collection, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, until December 2003

There are two known versions of the present lot. One, sold as part of the Collection of the Marquis de Ségur, Château de Méry-sur-Oise, part II; Hotel Drouot, Paris, 17 April 1975, identifies the sitter. Another version was sold by Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionhaus, Vienna, 7-12 February 1921, lot 538. This was praised by Schidlof as 'very good' (see Leo Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, 1964, II, p.712.) This miniature, which shows very slight variance in the background from the present lot, was sold at Christie's, 6 November 2001, lot 207.