Lot 48: Marie-Thérèse de Noireterre (French, 1760-1823)

MARIE-THÉRÈSE DE NOIRETERRE (FRENCH, 1760-1823) A self-portrait of the artist in green dress, seated next to her paint box Signed and dated ‘Mlle. deNoireterre 95’ (mid-left) On ivory 75 mm. diam., gold mount, set on the cover of a tortoiseshell bonbonnière, the gold mount stamped with the décharge of Jean-Baptiste Fouache, 1774-1780

PROVENANCE: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3-4 February 1930, lot 94. Maxime Hébert (1853-1945) Collection, Paris (inv. no. 2086), by 1932. With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 11 February 1953 (inv. nos. MD/0599 and 417).