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Lot 1075
Group of Portrait Miniatures
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first a watercolor on ivory of Madame Recamier after Francois Gerard and signer lower right, housed in an ornate wire work and faux tortoise shell frame (5.25 x 4 3/8 in.) (chip to ivory lower left corner); the second of a woman, likely Marie Antoinette, bedecked in roses and dress with blue sash, signed LeBrun, presented in oval Neoclassical style gilt metal frame with attached easel (4.75 x 3.5 in.); the third a watercolor on ivory of Maria, Crown Princess of Bavaria after Joseph Karl Stieler, signed and presented in a cove molded frame with gilt liner (5.5 x 4.75 in.); the fourth a watercolor on ivory of Caroline Grafin von Holstein after Joseph Karl Stieler, signed and presented in a cove molded frame with gilt metal liner (5.5 x 4.75 in.); the fifth a watercolor on ivory of Madame de Pompadour presented in and a gilt metal oval frame (3.5 x 2 7/8 in.); the sixth a watercolor of King George IV after Richard Cosway, signed and presented in a gilt metal frame (4.25 x 3.75 in.); accompanied by a printed silhouette of a gentleman.

Dimensions provided are all DOA.

The Estate of Ms. Frances Jefferson Bowman, Wytheville, VA

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