Lot 171: MICHAELO ALBANESI (ITALIAN, 1816-1878)

MICHAELO ALBANESI (ITALIAN, 1816-1878)
A baby, lying nude in a garden surrounded by flowers and trees
signed and dated 'M Albanesi 1846' (mid-right)
on ivory
rectangular, 2½ x 2¾ in. (63 x 70 mm.), gilt-metal mount with stamped border

with Gertrud Rudigier, Munich, in 2001.

PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
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