Lot 77: NICOLAS FRAN€OIS DUN (1764-1832)

A young lady, wearing silver tasselled bright blue scarf in her brown curling hair, facing right in white dress, cameo brooch pinned at corsage, red and blue bordered white stole draped around her shoulders signed 'Dun' (lower right) rectangular, 21/4 x 13/4 in. (57 x 44 mm.), gilt-metal mount PROVENANCE The celebrated collection of Dr. James Simon (1851-1932), Berlin, in 1906; sold Frederik Muller & Cie/Mensing, Amsterdam, 25-26 October 1927, lot 104. LITERATURE U. Thieme/F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Knstler, Leipzig, 1914, vol. 10, p. 147 (erroneously verbo Dunn, John). C. Jeannerat, 'Le miniaturiste lorrain Nicolas-Fran‡ois Dun (1764-1832)' Bulletin de la Soci‚t‚ de l'Histoire de l'Art Fran‡ais, 1925, p. 107. L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 224. EXHIBITION Berlin, Salons Friedmann & Weber, Miniaturen Ausstellung, 1906, no. 711 (lent by James Simon, Berlin).