Lot 431: ETIENNE CHARLES LE GUAY (FRENCH, 1762-1846)

ETIENNE CHARLES LE GUAY (FRENCH, 1762-1846)
A young lady, seated on blue upholstered chair, a drawing of a boy and folio in her lap, a pen in her right hand, in white dress with lace-bordered shawl, pink roses adorning her powdered hair; interior background with a harpsichord with musical scores
signed 'EC Le Guay' (mid-left)
on ivory
3 3/16 in. (81 mm.) diam., ormolu frame with cast surround

Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 253 (lent by Major de la Hey).

L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 484, II, p. 993, illustrated IV, pl. 350, fig. 710.
B. Hofstetter, Die Welt der Bildnisminiatur, Berne and Sulgen, 2008, p. 148 footnote 178.

Camille Groult Collection, Paris; 'Collection de Monsieur X...' (= Groult), part 1, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2 June 1961, lot 45 (920 French Francs).
De la Hey Collection; part I, Sotheby's, London, 27 May 1968, lot 43.
Sotheby's, Monte Carlo, 25 June 1976, lot 376.