LOT DETAILS
Materials:
on ivory
Measurements:
6.14 in. (15.60 cm.) (height) by 4.76 in. (12.10 cm.) (width)
Description:
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Markings:
signed and dated 'L Cruz ã 1836.' (lower right); rectangular, 6 1/8 x 4¾ in. (156 x 121 mm.), stamped gilt-metal mount
Condition:
stamped gilt-metal mount
Literature:
M. Tomás, La miniature retrato en España, 1953, illustrated in colour pl. LXXXI. C. Espinosa Martín, Las miniaturas en el Museo del Prado, Madrid, 2011, pp. 56 (as 'un magnífico retrato de Isabel II'), 58, footnote 2.
Provenance:
Christie's, Geneva, 18 May 1994, lot 373 (with a portrait of Queen Maria Christina of Spain). Robert D. Brewster (1916-1995) Collection, New York; Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 November 1995, lot 342.