WOLFGANG-ADAM TÖPFFER (Geneva 1766-1847 Morillon) Portrait... Lot 3214

WOLFGANG-ADAM TÖPFFER (Geneva 1766-1847 Morillon) Portrait of a girl. Circa 1835. Oil on cardboard. Inscribed on the reverse: de Toepffer / une fillette qui habitait près de l'Ariana / appartenant à Mme MS Campagne Moillioet-Sayous / aux Pâquis - Genève. 37.7 × 29.4 cm. Expert opinion: Dr. Lucien Boissonnas, August 2022. Provenance: - Private collection Moilliet-Sayous, Geneva (inscribed on verso). - Swiss private property. "This is a portrait of a child as Adam Töpffer painted them in his old age in Morillon near Geneva. On his son-in-law's estate of the same name (which was next to today's Ariana Museum; see inscription on reverse), the painter had a studio since the 1820s where he lived and painted in the summer. This portrait with the formative frontal look of the young girl is comparable with some similar children's portraits, which Adam Töpffer painted especially also of his grandchildren. [...] The reference to the provenance of Sayous further confirms this Töpffer context, as the former owner Jeanne Sayous (ca. 1870-?) was the granddaughter of Töpffer's good friend and brother-in-law Etienne Sayous (ca. 1756-?)" (quote from the expert opinion of Lucien Boissonnas).