Lot 2: JOSIAS BARBETTE (1657-1732)

A young lady, facing left in lace-bordered purple dress, blue cloak draped over her left shoulder, drop earring, her long powdered hair upswept and falling over her right shoulder signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'J. Barbette. 1697.' enamel on copper oval, 1 1/16 in. (28 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame PROVENANCE Hermann Emden Collection, Hamburg, part IV sold Rudolph Lepke's Kunst- Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 2-3 May 1911, lot 198. Mrs Raphael Sander, Hanover (in 1918). LITERATURE L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 61. EXHIBITION Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Bildnisminiaturen aus nieders„chsischem Privatbesitz, 1918, no. 42, illustrated (lent by Mrs Raphael Sander, Hanover).