Lot 152: FRANÇOIS-LOUIS-JOSEPH DELECOUR (FRANCO-DUTCH, C. 1755 - AFTER 1805)

FRANÇOIS-LOUIS-JOSEPH DELECOUR (FRANCO-DUTCH, C. 1755 - AFTER 1805)
A lady in profile to the left, in décolleté blue dress with white underdress, white gauze fichu with sprigged lace trim, wearing pearl earring and black choker, powdered curling hair
signed and dated 'Delecour 1790' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 1¾ in. (45 mm.) high, silver-gilt mount within pierced silver frame encrusted with rubies and diamonds

On loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1924-1939.

Ashcroft Collection; Sotheby's, London, 7 May 1946, lot 71 (68 gns to Nyburg).
Henry Nyburg Collection; Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1969, lot 102.
with Elle Shushan, Philadelphia, in 2007.

PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
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