A silhouetted portrait of a gentleman by Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgois. - image-1

Lot 247 Dα

A silhouetted portrait of a gentleman by Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgois.

Auction 1048 - overview Cologne
15.05.2015, 11:00 - Silver
Estimate: 800 €
Result: 1.984 € (incl. premium)

A silhouetted portrait of a gentleman by Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgois.

Gouache "en camaieu" on ivory in the original giltwood frame. Signed and dated to the lower edge of the bust "Bourgois 1793". The frame broken and glued. Diameter 7.3 cm.

Provenance

Purchased from A.M. Wager art dealers, Munich, 1982; Private collection, South Germany.

Literature

Illus. in: Henninger-Tavcar, Miniaturporträts, Karlsruhe 1995, p. 57. Cf. for this artist: Schidlof, Miniature in Europe, Graz 1964, vol. I, p. 102 f.