Lot 108: LOUISE GIRARD (FL. C. 1820-1850)

Elizabeth Alexeievna (1779-1826), Empress of Russia, in lace-bordered dark dress, wearing the moiré sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Andrew, pearl necklace, drop-pearl earrings, jewelled and gold tiara with pearl-set comb in her upswept curled hair
signed 'Girard' (lower right)
en grisaille on porcelain
oval, 5 3/8 in. (136 mm.) high, stamped ormolu mount within rectangular veneered wood panel

Another grisaille miniature on porcelain by this artist, dated 1820 and depicting King Louis-Philippe as duc d'Orléans, was sold Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1994, lot 57.