VILLENEUVE Cécile(1824-1901) , PORTRAIT MINIATURE DE LA COMTESSE DE TALHOUET-ROY, NEE DE MERINVILLE, PARIS 1888

TECHNIQUE: Watercolor and gouache on ivory, protected under a convex glass

ARSTIST:

SIGNED: Cécile Villeneuve (1824-1901)

FRAME : Ormulu chevalet frame .

PORTRAIT SIZE: 9x7,5cm

FRAME SIZE: 18x13,5cm

DESCRIPTION :

Miniature by Cécile Villeneuve (1824-1901), signed on the righ t: Cécile Villeneuve

The miniature is identified inside : Antoinette de Mérinville, Countess Georges de Talhouët-Roy, painted in Paris in 1888.

Cécile Villeneuve is rightly considered as the most talented of the last miniaturists of the 19th century. 

The portrait is preserved in an exceptional golden ormolu frame.


CONDITION: Very good original condition. Tiny restaurations in curtains's paint on left

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bénézit, Lespinasse, Blattel, Schidlof, Darmon, Foster, Thème et Becker, Lemoine Bouchard, Bernd Pappe