Lot 98: ROBERT GARDELLE (SWISS, 1682-1766) AND DANIEL GARDELLE (SWISS, 1679-1753)

A young lady, in white dress with lace underdress, gold bodice bordered with pearls and drop-pearl pendant at corsage, gold-bordered deep pink cloak draped over her shoulders, drop-pearl pendant and pearls in her long powdered upswept hair falling over her left shoulder
signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'Freres Gardelle pinxit Genevensis 1720'
enamel on copper
oval, 2 1/16 in. (52 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame

The signature on this miniature appears to be unique and shows that the Gardelle brothers, grandsons of Jean Petitot, worked closely together such as their Genevan colleagues, the Huauts and the Mussards. Whilst Robert Gardelle is better known as a painter of large oil portraits, Daniel Gardelle was the first teacher of Jean-E. Liotard.

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