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called the Chanoisesse de Golmin, full face in white satin dress with blue silk underskirt and sleeves, long powdered curling hair upswept, wearing the red moiré silk sash, cross of an order and gold epaulette, seated in a blue upholstered gilt-wood chair, holding a latter in her right hand and her left arm resting on a table with a marble top, maroon covered book beside her, blue silk curtain background, silver frame stamped with a coin pattern Christie's London. An excellent bid for a miniature not formerly given to Hallé. It carried a pre-sale estimate of between £ 7,000 to 9,000. Little is known about this artist who was the nephew of the painter Gabriel Briard. He also been often confused with Noël Hallé (1711-1781) regarding miniatures produced between 1775 and 1780. |
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