Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2431Location: BostonDate / Time: November 01, 2008 3:00PM
Description:
American School, 19th Century
Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Blue Dress. Unsigned. Pastel on paperboard, c. 1815, 13 x 10 in., in a period molded wood frame. Condition: Minor foxing.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
Foxing- There are about seven very small spots on her neck, one under the lace collar, a couple small specks under her left facing nostril, and some unobtrusive spots in the background- about five small ones above her right facing shoulder and a few couple to her left.