Two portrait miniatures of an elegant couple by Jeanne Doucet de Surigny - image-1

Lot 273 Dα

Two portrait miniatures of an elegant couple by Jeanne Doucet de Surigny

Auction 1086 - overview Cologne
18.05.2017, 17:00 - Jewellery
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 1.860 € (incl. premium)

Two portrait miniatures of an elegant couple by Jeanne Doucet de Surigny

Gouache on ivory, in identical gilt copper frames. Each signed lower right: Melle Doucet. Frames unopened. Each 8.2 x 7.2 cm (incl. frame).
Paris, late 18th / early 19th C.

The ladies portrait inscribed to an old label: "No. 68 vente de la Lariboisière 1936, signées Mlle Doucet".

Provenance

Auctioned by Lariboisière, Hôtel Drouot, 1936, lot 68.

Literature

For this French artist cf.: Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz 1964, I, p. 210.