Lot 169: GIUSEPPE TRESCA (ITALIAN, FL. C. 1770 - 1816)

GIUSEPPE TRESCA (ITALIAN, FL. C. 1770 - 1816)
A young lady, in white dress with white gauze trim and fichu, blue sash with pearl-set buckle tied around waist, blue ribbon tied at neck, gold-trimmed white scarf tied in a knot around her curling dark hair
signed 'Tresca f: P:' (lower right)
on ivory
2½ in. (64 mm.) diam., gilt-metal easel-stand frame with laurel wreath and ribbon surmount, two globular feet

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