Lot 522: LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER VANNES 1772 - 1830 BRUSSELS

PROPERTY FROM AN ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION

PORTRAIT OF A LADY, HALF LENGTH, HOLDING A BASKET OF FRUIT

measurements note
17 by 13 cm.; 6 3/4 by 5 1/8 in.

signed and dated lower left: Aatissier f^t. / 1811

oil on ivory

PROVENANCE

H. Lady Bullers Collection (according to an old label on the reverse);
Acquired circa June 1884 by the great grandmother of the present owner, thence by descent.

NOTE

The painting appears to relate to a series of miniatures that the artist exhibited at the Salon de Bruxelles in 1811 and 1815, and in the Salon de Gand in 1812 and 1815. A number of comparable miniatures, which may have been amongst those exhibited, are known in private collections and in the Collection des Miniatures, Tansey (see Autissier et le portrait miniature romantique en belgique, Kredietbank 1998, cat. no. 18, p. 149, cat. no. 26, p. 151, p. 19, fig. 1, p. 42, fig. 42, p. 50, fig. 26).