Lot 281: Johann-Ernst Heinsius (Hildburghausen 1740-1812 Orléans)

Johann-Ernst Heinsius (Hildburghausen 1740-1812 Orléans)
Portrait of Beli, as a young girl, holding a basket of fruit and flowers
signed 'J. Heins: fecit' (lower right) and inscribed 'Belie age de 6 ans' (upper right) and with collector's stamp (lower right)
black chalk, on paper, watermarked D & C Blauw on an 18th century mount
10 7/8 x 8¼ in. (27.6 x 20.9 cm.)

Paris, Petit Palais, Exposition de l'Enfance, 1901, no.108.

M. Paulme (L.1910).
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13 May 1929, lot 102.