Lot 87: Elizabeth Terroux (Swiss, 1759-1822)

ELIZABETH TERROUX (SWISS, 1759-1822) A lady in blue dress and straw hat Signed ‘Elizabeth Terroux pinxit’ (mid-right) Enamel on copper Oval, 61 mm. high, silver-gilt réverbère frame with white enamel border

PROVENANCE: C. H. T. Hawkins of 10 Portland Place, London; (†) Christie’s, London, 22-25 March 1904, lot 191 (as by Elizabeth Ferrour, £64 to Madame Helft). Edouard Warneck (1834-1924) Collection, Paris, by 1911. His son-in-law, Arthur Sambon (1867-1947), Paris, by 1923 and in 1926. E. Warneck Collection, Paris; Part IV, Leo Schidlof’s Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 18 November 1926, lot 49. Friedrich Neuburg Collection, Litomerice, Moravia; Part I, Hôtel Drouot, 27 March 1939, lot 93. Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0183 and 569).