Lot 19B: GEORGES ANTOINE KEMAN (FRENCH, 1765-1830)

GEORGES ANTOINE KEMAN (FRENCH, 1765-1830)
A young gentleman, seated, his left arm resting on the back of the wooden chair, a book in his right hand, in brown coat, white striped waistcoat, frilled cravat, powdered hair
signed 'Keman.' (mid-right)
on ivory
3 in. (77 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount

Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 234.

L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 984, ill. III, pl. 319, no. 640.
K. Henninger-Tavcar, Miniaturporträts, Pforzheim, 1995, illustrated in colour p. 213.

Leo R. Schidlof (1886-1966) Collection, London.
Lempertz, Cologne, 23 March 1991, lot 48 (part lot).
with Henninger-Tavcar, Pforzheim.

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