LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Enamel on copper

Measurements:

2.40 in. (6.10 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Markings:

Signed 'Elizabeth Terroux pinxit' (mid-right)

Condition:

silver-gilt réverbère frame with white enamel border

Exhibited:

Paris 1923, no. 235 (lent by Arthur Sambon). Paris 1925 (lent by Arthur Sambon). Paris 1926, no. 28 (lent by Arthur Sambon). Geneva 1956, no. 432, illustrated. Zurich 1957-58 and 1961.

Literature:

Schidlof 1911, p. 364, illustrated pl. 9, p. 364. Clouzot 1924, p. 193. Clouzot 1928, p. 170 (as a possible self-portrait), illustrated pl. XI (as a self-portrait). Schneeberger 1958, pp. 171-173, illustrated fig. 69 (as an unknown lady). Schidlof 1964, II, p. 1052 (as a self-portrait of the artist), illustrated IV, pl. 570, fig. 1158. Genoud 1999, p. 60 footnote 77. Tissot 2010, p. 586, illustrated in color p. 587.

Provenance:

C. H. T. Hawkins of 10 Portland Place, London; (†) Christie’s, London, 22-25 March 1904, lot 191 (as by Elizabeth Ferrour, £64 to Madame Helft). Edouard Warneck (1834-1924) Collection, Paris, by 1911. His son-in-law, Arthur Sambon (1867-1947), Paris, by 1923 and in 1926. E. Warneck Collection, Paris; Part IV, Leo Schidlof’s Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 18 November 1926, lot 49. Friedrich Neuburg Collection, Litomerice, Moravia; Part I, Hôtel Drouot, 27 March 1939, lot 93. Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0183 and 569).