GABRIEL MONTAUT MONTAUT D'OLERON (FRENCH 1798-1852) Portrait miniature of a Lady wearing a green dress with miniature portrait suspended from a string of pearls around her neck. Her brown hair dressed with ringlets upswept into a bun, cloud background  Signed Montaut pinx and dated 1820 on the obverse Watercolour on ivory  Original gold mount with pierced scrolling border set with rose-cut diamonds in foiled closed back settings, the reverse glazed to reveal silk  Circular, 52 mm (2in)  Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009  Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 12, 66 (#298)