Lot 52: Pierre-Adolphe Hall (Franco-Swedish, 1739-1793)

PIERRE-ADOLPHE HALL (FRANCO-SWEDISH, 1739-1793) A lady in low-cut white dress, in a woodland landscape On ivory 66 mm. diam., gilt-metal mount, on the cover of a tortoiseshell-lined lacquer bonbonnière

PROVENANCE: Madame de Polès Collection; her sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Maître Lair- Dubreuil, Paris, 22 June 1927, lot 35 (then in a giltwood frame), reofered in the sale of her estate entitled Succession de Madame de Polès, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Maître Ader, 18 November 1936, lot 121. With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in Paris, 10 May 1939 (inv. nos. MD/0184 and 275).