La Belle Ferronnière, after Leonardo da VINCI
Oval plaque in painted porcelain
Inscriptions by the artist on the back of the mount : ...belle feronnière / Hommage de reconnaissance / offert à Madame Lenoir-Duplessis / par son élève / Honorine Fromage / ...bre 1834
17 x 13 cm (plaquee)
Original gilded wood and stucco frame with palmettes decoration
27 x 23 cm (frame)
Note: Miss Honorine Fromage is mentioned as having exhibited at the Salon of 1837 a painting on porcelain representing Raphael's mistress, under the number 778. The original painting by Leonardo da Vinci and his workshop is kept at the Louvre Museum.