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Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Le Tellier

Portrait of a lady, circa 1785

Lot Closed

December 9, 05:07 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Le Tellier

Fl. Paris 1793 - 1812

Portrait of a lady, circa 1785


watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, set in the lid of a gold mounted tortoiseshell-lined lacquer box;

signed lower right: le Tell[ier]

4.7 by 4 cm., 2 by 1⅝ in.

Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, (d. 1962), by 1955

Sale, London, Replica Shoes 's, 9 June 1986, lot 49

L.R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz 1964, vol. 1, p. 511;
M. Friesen, Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880,Darmstadt 2001, p. 417, no. 236;
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris 2008, p. 354