FERDINANDO QUAGLIA (Piacenza, Duchy of Parma,... Lot 40

FERDINANDO QUAGLIA (Piacenza, Duchy of Parma, 1780-Paris, 1853) YOUNG WOMAN WITH MULTICOLORED HEADBAND Oval miniature on ivory (5.2 x 3.5 CM) Signed on the right: Quaglia Circa 1810 Gilded metal frame with floral motif, on the reverse, collection label: K/5 Total weight: 0.016 kg Enclosed is a handwritten note from Léon Creissels: "from the Kreuznach collection [...], acquired through M. Bourdariat, price 1,200 francs". - Young woman with a multicoloured headband, oval miniature, signed on the right, gilt metal frame with floral motifs, collection label on the back : K/5/ - - Léon Creissels acquired this miniature as a "presumed portrait of Talma's sister". Anne Euphrasine Talma (1773-1868), sister of the famous actor François-Joseph Talma, was the wife of academician painter Jean-Louis Ducis. This young woman bears a certain resemblance to Talma's mistress of 1812, Pauline Bonaparte Princesse Borghese (1780-1825). Related work Another, larger miniature of the same subject appeared in the coll. Baüml, Vienna, then Dr. Leopold Paur, Freiburg; Lemperz, 1968, no. 1512; Sotheby's London, March 6, 1997 no. 25 repr.; Christie's London, November 26, 2014, no. 309 repr. as "jeune femme traditionnellement dite Joséphine de Beauharnais", oval H. 8.3 CM, adj. €27,750. Bibliography L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 657 (as possibly Josephine Bonaparte). C. Parisio, Ferdinando Quaglia 1780-1853, da Piacenza a Parigi, Brescia, 2012, p. 23, no. 8.