Lot 96: JEAN-ANTOINE LAURENT (1763-1832)

A young lady, full length holding an olive branch, standing before a tree in a wooded landscape; in white dress sprigged with blue flowers, fichu stole, lace-bordered white bonnet with blue ribbon in her curling powdered hair; foliate background with wooden punt on a river signed with initial 'L' (mid-right) rectangular, 7 x 5 3/8 in. (176 x 134 mm.), later ormolu frame with outer beaded border and pierced ribbon and tie surmount LITERATURE L. Mouillefarine, "La peinture en miniature", Figaro Madame, no. 12621, 30 March 1985, illustrated in colour p. 22. EXHIBITION Paris, Galerie Marigny, Miniatures du XVI. au XIX. siŠcle, 1985, no. 85, illustrated p. 23 pl. IX. Paris, Louvre des Antiquaires, Galerie Nicole Kramer, Objets d'une Passion, 1992/1993, no. 18. Nancy, Mus‚e Historique, Couvent des Cordeliers, La miniature en Lorraine, 1993/1994, no. 154.