ELIZABETH EMMA SOYER (LONDON 1813-1842)

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ID 990825
Lot 210 | ELIZABETH EMMA SOYER (LONDON 1813-1842)
ELIZABETH EMMA SOYER (LONDON 1813-1842)

The escape: a young girl with a bird cage

signed and dated 'E. Jones · fecit / 1836' (lower right)

oil on canvas, unframed

29 7/8 x 24 3/4 in. (76 x 63 cm.)





Provenance

The artist's sale; (†), Christie's, London, 5 March 1859, lot 111, 'THE ESCAPE: A Child with a Birdcage' (15 gns.).

Anonymous sale; Brussels Art Auctions, Brussels, 23 March 2021, lot 133, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

F. Volant and J. R. Warren, eds., Memoirs of Alexis Soyer; with unpublished receipts and odds and ends of gastronomy, London, 1859, p. 141.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1837, no. 197, 'The escape'.
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