The Tansey Miniatures Foundation

Die Miniatur Über den Künstler

The Tansey Miniatures Foundation

DE
The Miniature About the Artist

Lady in Blue Dress with Fur Trimming

French

The lady in her blue dress, the neckline of which is held together in front with a brooch, is portrayed in the popular rococo-style pose with the head and body turned into opposite directions. She looks at the observer with her dark brown eyes. Her unpowdered hair, naturally combed back, falls on her right shoulder, a style which suggests dating the portrait to around the year 1730. The room in which the model sits is intimated by a pilaster in the background to the right. In this very unostentatious picture the focus is entirely on the lady’s face. The pale flesh tones are accentuated by the red colour in her heavily made up lips and cheeks.1
The painter of this miniature, recalling the works of the French portraitist Pierre Gobert, has not been established.
B. P.

1 Two miniatures by the same artist show similarly dressed ladies sitting at a table on which drinking vessels are arrayed. (Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 23 June 2006, lot. 106, and The Collection, County Museum and Gallery, Lincolnshire, England, inv.-no. 1927-1372, as Mme de Pompadour by Cornelius Høyer).