Lot 306: PIERRE-NOËL VIOLET (FRENCH, 1749-1819)

PIERRE-NOËL VIOLET (FRENCH, 1749-1819)
Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin, Comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830), in white dress with blue bodice and blue bows tied at her upper arm, striped gauze scarf tied at corsage, three-strand pearl necklace, gold-embroidered grey bandeau in her powdered curling hair
signed 'P. Violet' (mid-left)
on ivory
oval, 2¾ in. (70 mm.) high, silver-gilt réverbère frame with bright-cut border and engraved with sitter's name, within gilt-metal frame with white enamel pellet border

N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 530.

Christie's, London, 10 December 2002, lot 138.