Lot 175: JEANNE-MATHILDE HERBELIN, NÉE HABERT (FRENCH, 1820-1904)

Countess Pernety with her clasped hands, her left arm leaning on a red tasselled cushion, in black lace dress with white lace sleeves, turquoise silk bows fastened to her bodice, ermine stole draped over her arms, turquoise ribbon in her long upswept dark hair; draped red curtain background
signed and dated 'M^tde.. Herbelin 1854.' (mid-left)
rectangular with rounded corners, 5 5/8 x 4 1/4 in. (143 x 108 mm.), ormolu easel frame by Alphonse Giroux with engraved flowerhead surround

Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 207 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).

L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 349.
Exhibition catalogue Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855), portraitiste de l'Europe, Malmaison Castle and Musée des Beaux-Arts of Nancy, 2005-2006, illustrated p. 162, no. 237 (with erroneous description).

Maxime Hébert, Paris, inv. no. 1661.
Bought by Ernst Holzscheiter from Leo Schidlof, London, on 11 February 1953.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, inv. no. 283, M/D 0607; sale, part II, Sotheby's, London, 1 May 1980, lot 109.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.