Jean-Urbain GUERIN Portrait of a woman in a white dress with a tortoiseshell pin in her hair Watercolour and gum arabic on ivory Signed 'J. Guérin. f.' lower right CIC n° 2024/BE01907/CE Portrait of a lady in a white dress with a tortoiseshell pin in her hair, watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, signed, by J.-U. Guérin 2.67 x 2 in. 6.8 x 5.1 cm Provenance: Collection of Mme Levaigneur, Paris (goddaughter and heiress of Théodore Dablin (1783-1861)); Her sale after her death, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 2-4 May 1912, no. 234 (sold for 3,520 frs. to M. Paulme); David David-Weill Collection (1871-1952), Neuilly-sur-Seine, no. 717; Galerie Wildenstein, Paris ; Acquired from the latter by Mr Charles Clore, London; Sold: London, Sotheby's, 17 March 1986, no. 80 (sold to Susanne Schuermann); Susanne Schuermann Collection (1927-2014), Hattingen ; Its sale; London, Christie's, 2 June 2009, no. 133 (sold for £2,000); Pierre Jourdan-Barry Collection (1926-2016); Then by descent; Private collection, Belgium Exhibitions : An exhibition of important 18th & early 19th century miniatures and enamels at Garrard, London, Garrard's, 1961, n° 70 Bibliography: Louis Gillet, Carlo Jeannerat, Henri Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, pp. 136-137, no. 70 Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 274 (Restored crack in lower right through signature) Jean-Urbain GUERIN 6.8 x 5.1 cm