NORTH EUROPEAN SCHOOL, 18Th Century, Artist portrait.
Relined canvas 101 x 81 cm. Period frame.
Fritzes Hovbokhandel, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bought as a Alexander Roslin-painting in 1922, by Managing Director Åke Collett, thereafter inherited within the family.
Sold at Bruun Rasmussen konstauktioner, spring auction 1996, catalogue no 84.
Thereafter in a private swedish collection.
With later signature "Roslin".
According to an old label on the reverse the artist is Alexander Roslin and the sitter is his wife Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1734-1772)