Lot 152: JOSEPH-MARIE BOUTON (1768-1823)

A young lady, facing right in black-bordered diaphanous grey silk dress, her brown hair curled and upswept signed 'Bouton.' (mid-right) oval, 2 7/8 in. (83 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with inner palmette border Exhibition catalogue De Bouton … Goya - Cinq miniaturistes … la cour de Madrid, Toulouse, Mus‚e Paul Dupuy, 1960, p. 31. no. LXXIV (erroneously as dated 1805). EXHIBITION Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Bildnisminiaturen aus nieders„chsischem Privatbesitz, 1918, no. 494 (lent by Dr. Leo Catzenstein, Hanover).