Lot 421: IGNAZIO-PIO-VITTORIANO CAMPANA (FRANCO-ITALIAN, 1744-1786)

IGNAZIO-PIO-VITTORIANO CAMPANA (FRANCO-ITALIAN, 1744-1786)
A young lady disguised as a milkmaid, in light grey dress, open to reveal white corset with blue strings, white mob cap over her curled hair dressed in ringlets, her left arm resting on a milk jug, a metal vessel in her left hand
on ivory
2 11/16 in. (68 mm.) diam., later gilt-brass frame with beaded inner border

Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 65 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter).

Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 1 September 1938, lot 948.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen; part III, Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1986, lot 57.
Private Collection, Vienna.
Sotheby's, Geneva, 17 May 1994, lot 15.