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Lot 14: CARL GUSTAV KLINGSTEDT (1657-1734)

Est: $876 USD - $1,168 USDSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomMay 28, 2002

Item Overview

Description

' La le‡on d'enfilage ': an innocent girl learning to thread pearls, supervised by an elderly procuress wearing glasses grisaille heightened with watercolour on vellum oval, 3 5/16 in. (84 mm.) wide, turned wood frame NOTES For other miniatures by Klingstedt who was notorious for his topics based on filthy jeux de mots as in the present case, see M. Olausson/J. Sj”holm, Nationalmuseum. Svenska och ”vriga nordiska miniatyrer, Halmstad, 2001, I, pp. 315-317.

Artist or Maker

Auction Details

IMPORTANT PORTRAIT MINIATURES, GOLD BOXES & OBJECTS OF VERTU

by
Christie's
May 28, 2002, 12:00 AM EST

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK