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Gresly Necklace Switzerland
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The present miniature picture of Rosa Gresly, together with the picture of Constanze Mozart (Mozarteum Salzburg), are currently the only known pictures of the wearers and owners of the time and their jewelry or works of art. In the present case, the necklace, presumably made by Alexandre Perregeaux and consisting of three tiny micro-pictures, came into the possession of the Rosa Scherer-Gresly family (1783-1859).
According to the information in her will provided by the State Archives of the Canton of Solothurn, Mrs. Scherer-Gresly was a very wealthy woman at the time. Thus, with the available data, a local as well as personal assignment could be made.
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