Lot 150: A young lady, holding a portrait miniature of a gentleman in her left hand, in lace-bordered dress with blue bodice and off-the-shoulder white sleeves entwined with pearls, large drop-pearl earrings, lace bandeau and flowing gauze veil in her

JOHANN JULIUS HEINSIUS (FRANCO-GERMAN, 1740-1812)
A young lady, holding a portrait miniature of a gentleman in her left hand, in lace-bordered dress with blue bodice and off-the-shoulder white sleeves entwined with pearls, large drop-pearl earrings, lace bandeau and flowing gauze veil in her long curling auburn hair, her left arm leaning on a green covered ledge
indistinctly signed and dated '[Heinsiu]s pinx: 1790' (mid-right)
3 in. (77 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount

THE PROPERTY OF A FRENCH NOBLEMAN


Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten ( Miniaturen der Revolutionszeit 1789-1799 aus der Sammlung Tansey , Munich, 2005, p. 200) points out that Heinsius worked from the 1790s until his death in Orleans. For two other signed miniatures of ladies by Heinsius, see M. Friesen (ed.), Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880 , Darmstadt, 2001, figs. 160-161, p. 409.