Carmontelle

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Carmontelle
1717-1806
Portrait of Mme de Sireuil Seated in a Landscape
Watercolor over black and red chalks, on laid paper lined to mount decorated with pale green border.
11 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (285 x 182 mm)
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.
1992.3
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Watermark: none visible through lining.

Provenance: 
Mme de Sireuil; by descent in the Sireuil family; Albert Meyer, Paris; sale, London, Sotheby's, 23 March 1972, lot 72, repr.; Galerie Cailleux; private collection, Paris; acquired from Galerie de Bayser, Paris.
Associated names: 

Sireuil, Mme de, former owner.
Meyer, Albert, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 11, repr. in color.

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