Lot 82: GIUSEPPE TRESCA (ITALIAN, D. 1816)

GIUSEPPE TRESCA (ITALIAN, D. 1816)
A young lady, in décolleté white muslin dress with blue bodice, white muslin shawl over her shoulders tied at corsage, wearing a large blue hat with ribbons over her powdered curling hair
signed 'Tresca f.' (lower right)
on ivory
2¼ in. (57 mm.) diam., gold frame

L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 1056, no. 1189, illustrated IV, pl. 589 no. 1189.

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