Lot 186: JOSEPH MARIE BOUTON (FRENCH, 1768-1832)

A young lady in lace-bordered off-the-shoulder white silk dress, green stole draped over her right shoulder, her fair hair curled and adorned with two black ribbon headbands and plaited in a bun
signed 'Bouton.' (mid-right)
rectangular, 2 5/8 x 1 13/16 in. (67 x 46 mm.), gilt-metal frame

Exhibition catalogue De Bouton à Goya, Toulouse, Musée Paul-Dupuy, 1960, p. 34, no. CVI.

Ernst Holszcheiter, Meilen, inv. no. M/D 0265; sale, part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 192.

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