Portrait miniatures for sale and auction results

A Rare and Important Jewelled Three-Colour Gold and Guilloché Enamel Imperial Presentation Snuff-Box

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 1978, THE PORTRAIT MINIATURE BY VASILII ZUEV

IMPORTANTE BOITE A PORTRAIT DE LOUIS XIV

LA MINIATURE PAR JEAN I PETITOT (1607-1691), LA MONTURE PROBABLEMENT PAR PIERRE OU LAURENT LE TESSIER DE MONTARSY, VERS 1680

RECTO WITH A PORTRAIT OF A COURTIER, PROBABLY GHAZI KHAN, ZAFAR JANG VERSO WITH A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN WRITTEN BY MIR 'ALI

THE PAINTING MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1650-58 AD, THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED BY MIR 'ALI, HERAT OR BUKHARA, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY

THE MARIA FITZHERBERT JEWEL

A DIAMOND-GLAZED LOCKET CONTAINING A PORTRAIT OF KING GEORGE IV WHEN PRINCE OF WALES (1762-1830) THE PORTRAIT MINIATURE, ON IVORY, BY RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. (BRITISH, 1742-1821), THE LOCKET ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE & RUNDELL, LONDON, CIRCA 1800

** A VARI-COLOR GOLD AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL FRAME WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE

MARKED FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 5880, THE MINIATURE SIGNED AND DATED LOWER RIGHT 'RG [19]03

A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED AND HARDSTONE GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE

BY JEAN DUCROLLAY ( FL. 1734-1761), MARKED, PARIS, 1754/1755, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JULIEN BERTHE 1750-1756, THE ENAMEL MINIATURE ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE PASQUIER (FRENCH, 1731-1806)

JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD (1702-1789)

A Highly Important Enamel Portrait Miniature of King George III (1738-1820) when Prince of Wales, facing left in gold figured raspberry-coloured velvet coat, white stock and lace jabot , blue sash and breast-star of the Order of the Garter, curled short powdered wig with black wig-bag

Patek Philippe. A very fine and unique 18K gold and enamel openface keyless lever watch with enamel miniature "Seated Harlequin (Portrait of the Painter Jacinto Salvado)" after Pablo Picasso by G. Menni, with original certificate

SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, GENÈVE, REF. 652, MOVEMENT NO. 1'945'156, CASE NO. 2'871'265, MANUFACTURED IN 2005

A LOUIS XV THREE-COLOUR GOLD AND HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF QUEEN MARIE-ANTOINETTE OF FRANCE

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS BRETON (FL. 1737-1791), MARKED, PARIS, 1766/1767, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-JACQUES PREVOST 1762-1768

A SWISS JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD MUSICAL SINGING BIRD-BOX SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE

THE CASE BY GEORGE RÉMOND & COMPAGNIE (1805-1815), WITH THE MARK OF PIGUET & CAPT (1802-1811), THE SINGING-BIRD MECHANISM ATTRIBUTED TO FRÈRES ROCHAT (1800-1835), GENEVA, CIRCA 1810

AN IMPRESSIVE VARICOLOUR GOLD AND SILVER-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL FRAME WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 58800

PATEK PHILIPPE. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AND UNIQUE 18K GOLD OPENFACE KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH ENAMEL MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF HECTOR BERLIOZ BY SUZANNE ROHR AFTER ED. WINKLER, WITH ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE AND BOX

SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, GENEVE, REF. 866/77, MOVEMENT NO. 932'607, CASE NO. 433'691, MANUFACTURED IN 1976

Georg David Matthieu (1737-1778)

Portrait of Ulrike Sophie, Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1723-1813), seated small full length by a secretaire in an interior, wearing a light blue satin dress with lace cuffs and bonnet, a portrait miniature and a fob watch around her waist, a portrait miniature on her wrist and a diamond necklace, holding a letter in her left hand and a pen in her right hand

A RUSSIAN JEWELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH AN ENAMEL PORTRAIT MINIATURE

BY JEAN-PIERRE ADOR (1724-1784), ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1760, THE FLANGE ENGRAVED ' ADOR À PETERSBOURG '

Attributed to John S. Blunt (1798-1835), Circa 1834-1835

Willard Family Portrait (Frances Adeline Whitman Willard, Frances Adeline Willard, Henry Haskell Willard, Jr. and Henry Haskell Willard, Sr., miniature portrait)

AN HISTORIC ROYAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE BROOCH, BY KOECHLI

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). [ Works ] London: 1837-1870. 16 works in 18 volumes. 8° or 16°. Plates. Variously in Cosway-style bindings of red, blue, brown or green morocco by Bayntun (Riviere) of Bath (one binding unsigned), 16 of the bindings with the upper covers with central inset original oval portrait miniatures (6 after Daniel Maclise of Dickens as a young man, one in middle-age and 8 of the author in his late 50s; one of the character 'Little Dombey'), all elaborately tooled in gilt, one with inset faceted glass, three with onlays of contrasting-coloured leather, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges.

ALBUM AMICORUM of Salomon SCHWEIGGER VON SULZ (1551-1622). Manuscript on paper, South Germany, Constantinople, Egypt and the Holy Land, 1576-1608, written mostly in German, Latin, or Greek, and some in Turkish, Arabic, Armenian, Aramaic and Georgian and other languages, with depictions of arms on 91 pages, nine other miniatures (including a portrait of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Metrophanes III of Constantinople), four engravings (including portraits of the owner, of Joachim von Sintzendorff and of Melchior Lorichs), interleaved with numerous examples of Turkish marbled and ornamented paper, altogether 185 leaves, 200 x 143mm , contemporary green morocco binding. Provenance : shelfmark (Ms.733) of Rudolf Ritter von Gutmann; shelfmark (Ser.nov. 2973) of Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

OZIAS HUMPHRY, R.A. (1742-1810)

An Important Portrait Miniature of The Sahibzada, full face in orange and white robe, wearing a blue nawabi turban, seated cross-legged on a gold striped purple cushion; column background

Anton Domenico Gabbiani (Florence 1652-1726)

Group portrait of three gentlemen, half-length, one in a red doublet holding a viola da gamba in one hand and a miniature portrait in the other, the second in a brown coat with a silk cravat, holding a letter, the last holding up a medal from a chain around his neck, a view of St. Peter's, Rome and the Castel Sant'Angelo beyond.

AN IMPERIAL FRENCH PARCEL-ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE

THE BOX BY ETIENNE-LUCIEN BLERZY (FL. 1801-1808), MARKED, WITH THE RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARK FOR GOLD, PARIS 1798-1809 AND THE PARISIAN POST-REVOLUTIONARY UNOFFICIAL STANDARD MARK FOR 20.5 CARAT GOLD, THE FLANGE ENGRAVED WITH RETAILER'S NAME AND INVENTORY NUMBER 260 AND INSCRIBED BY THE RETAILER 'NO 53. ETIENNE NITOT ET FILS JOUAILLIERS [ SIC ] BIJOUTIERS . DE SA MAJESTÉ L'IMPÉRATRICE ET REINE À PARIS .' THE MINIATURE SCHOOL OF DANIEL SAINT (FRENCH 1778-1847), CIRCA 1808

AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF AURANGZEB

MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1700

AN IMPERIAL RUSSIAN JEWELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE

THE BOX PROBABLY HANAU, WORKSHOP OF CARL MARTIN WEISHAUPT & SONS, CIRCA 1865, THE FLANGE ENGRAVED WITH INVENTORY NO. 1766 THE MINIATURE BY ALOIS GUSTAV ROCKSTUHL (RUSSIAN, 1798-1877), SIGNED

A PIEDMONTESE CARVED BOXWOOD FRAME ATTRIBUTED TO GIUSEPPE MARIA BONZANIGO AND WORKSHOP, TURIN, CIRCA 1790, CONTAINING A MINIATURE AFTER JEAN-ANTOINE LAURENT

A young lady, full-length holding an olive branch, standing before a tree in a wooded landscape, in white dress, fichu, bandeau in curling hair, blue silk slippers, foliate background with a stream

A GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE FRAME WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE

BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1905

CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE (1683/84-1767)

Four important enamel miniatures set in a Fine George II Enamel and Gold Portrait Box with hinged lid and base, the concave sides chased with reeded c-scrolls and shellwork on a frosted gold ground and enamelled en basse-taille with leaves in translucent green and with Edelweiß in opaque white, two similarly enamelled raised scrolling thumbpieces and reeded gold mounts; the four portraits comprising, on the cover, Mary Delany, in russet dress and white underslip held by a rope of pearls, blue ribbon in her curly long fair hair, drop pearl earrings; the interior cover with the Duchess of Portland, in blue silk dress trimmed with pearls and narrow brown fur stole, pearl earrings and strand of pearls in her hair; the hinged base with Elizabeth Montagu in lace-edged black Tudor costume, the dress and gold-figured coif bordered with pearls; the interior base with a profile of an unknown lady in low-cut frill-bordered white dress, a garland of flowers worn as a cross-sash

NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805) and Emma, Lady HAMILTON (1761?-1815). 'Mementos of Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton', a collection of 3 autograph letters signed, including one to Emma Hamilton, and a document signed by Nelson, an autograph letter signed by Lady Hamilton, sheet music, medals, miniatures, and intaglios, a manuscript facsimile and a fragment of the Victory's foretopsail, mounted on boards together with a calligraphic and decorated text giving biographical notes and transcriptions, 25 boards in total, 387 x 328mm . Blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers with elaborate border of intersecting strapwork, gilt fillets with small onlays of red morocco circled in gilt, the cornerpieces with large palmette motifs, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat design of fillets and laurel wreaths, but alternating the dates and arms of Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, gilt turn-ins, brown morocco doublures, in the upper cover with three glass-covered inset panels containing commemorative medals, in the lower cover with two glass-covered inset panels containing intaglio portrait seals, blue silk liners, gilt edges (some surface damage to liners caused by the covers of the facing inset panels, the catches to two of the glass covers faulty and repaired with tape, extremities lightly rubbed). A LUXURIOUS COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION ON NELSON AND EMMA HAMILTON The contents include: Horatio, Viscount NELSON. Autograph letter signed to Revd Henry Crowe, Medusa at sea, 8 August 1801, a reply to a request for patronage 'I felt such pleasure at being remembered by an Old Burnham friend', promising to help a relative of Crowe's, giving news of other Burnham friends who are in the service, 'Raven and Howard both behave exceedingly well', and sending greetings, two pages, 4to , on a bifolium (mounted on tape, tears of 78mm and 5mm to centrefolds, touching two words). The Crowes were the Nelsons' distant cousins, but immediate neighbours during Horatio's childhood in Burnham Thorpe. The announcement of Nelson's appointment to the command of the defence flotilla on the south-east coast to guard against Napoleon's planned invasion led to a large number of requests for patronage. He began his command in the Medusa , and used the frigate to 'take a peep at them on the coast of France', a reconnaisance which established that rumour had greatly exaggerated the threat of invasion. [ And :] Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') TO EMMA, LADY HAMILTON, Amazon off Folkestone, 25 September 1801, a despondent letter: the deteriorating condition of Edward Parker, and a calm, have kept him from sailing for either the French coast or Dungeness, and his depression is exacerbated by separation from Emma: 'My heart I assure you is very low last night I had flattered myself, I now have no hopes...we must bear up against these misfortunes. I have not had your letters today they are my only comfort', reporting on a sortie of 'flat boats &c' from Calais which has been repelled, and concluding 'You must my Dear friend forgive me for I cannot write any thing worth your reading except that I am at all times situations & places your for ever affectionate Nelson & Bronte', 1½ pages, 4to , on a bifolium (mounted on thread, light soiling, seal tears), (fragments of seal). Captain Edward Parker, known as 'Little Parker' and a much-loved protégé of Nelson's, had suffered a shattered thigh during the disastrous attack on the flat boats at Boulogne on the night of 15-16 August; he died after an amputation four days after the present letter. By late autumn, with the season limiting his opportunities for action against an in any case illusory threat, and peace imminent, Nelson's duties in his south-eastern coastal command were becoming increasingly irksome. [ And :] Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Samuel Briggs, Pro-Consul, Victory , 4 February 1805, an urgent letter written after the French break-out from Toulon, speculating on their movements and making provision for their arrival in Egypt, 'I have wrote to the Governor of Alexandria to be upon his Guard ag t a visit from those Gentry...I hope he will take every means in his power...in particular to have vessels ready to sink to prevent the entrance of the french fleet into the old Port', and communicating the intelligence he has at his disposal, 4 pages, 4to , on a bifolium (mounted with tape, tear to centre-fold of bifolium, touching two words). It was not until 18 February, after a phantom pursuit the length of the Mediterranean, that Nelson discovered that the French had been discouraged by the bad weather they had encountered on setting out from Toulon, had returned to port shortly afterwards. [ And :] Document signed ('Nelson & Bronte'), St George , 26 March 1801, three memoranda ordering preparations for the passing of the Cronenburg fort in the approach to the Battle of Copenhagen, directing in particular that anchors should be kept at the ready 'as great precision is necessary in placing the ships', that the ships should tow armed launches, and that as a particular measure for passing the Cronenburg seven ships should tow bomb vessels, 3 pages, folio , on a bifolium (mounted with tape, tear of 112mm to centrefold of bifolium, and of 30mm to upper margin of second leaf, some creasing); [ together with :] Manuscript directions for the conduct of the Battle of Copenhagen, n.p. [H.M.S. Elephant ], n.d. [March/April 1801], 3 pages, folio , on a bifolium (mounted with tape, light soiling). Adverse winds meant that the passage of the Cronenburg was not made until 30 March, with the Battle of Copenhagen following on 2 April. For the battle itself Nelson transferred his flag from the St George to the lighter Elephant . [ And :] Emma, Lady HAMILTON. Autograph letter signed ('Emma Hamilton') to Midshipman William Fady, n.p. [Naples], n.d. [1798], 'I send you some cakes port &c...be good & attentive to your studies & the Admiral will love you', one page, 4to , on a bifolium (some soiling); and autograph ownership inscription ('Lady Hamilton Merton Surry') on printed sheet music for Cynthia , a song, together with The Battle of the Nile...The Words by Mrs Knight, The Music Composed & Dedicated to Lady Hamilton By Dr Haydn , supposed to be Lady Hamilton's copy. William Fady was the fourteen year-old son of a marine killed at the Battle of the Nile, and served as midshipman on Nelson's Vanguard . The words to the cantata Battle of the Nile were by Ellis Cornelia Knight, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Joseph Knight and a friend and percipient observer of Nelson and the Hamiltons in Naples and on their journey back to England. The music was composed by Josef Haydn (Hoboken XVIb:4) for Emma Hamilton; he accompanied her in performance of the piece in the course of Nelson's rapturous reception in Vienna in September 1800. [ And :] 'A Piece of the Victory's Fore Topsail', backed on paper with an inscription apparently in the autograph of William John Huggins (1781-1845, marine artist, painter of three large depictions of the Battle of Trafalgar for William IV); [ And :] A bronze medal depicting Peace on the obverse and the Battle of the Nile on the reverse, by Matthew Boulton of the Soho Mint for Alexander Davison, struck to celebrate the Battle of the Nile, 1798, privately inscribed 'Jas. Bews', together with a commemorative medal by Peter Kirke to celebrate Nelson's return to England, 1800, and a medal in white metal, by Matthew Boulton, for the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 (old adhesive to verso of Kirke medal); [ with :] coloured glass portrait seals of Nelson and Lady Hamilton, attributed to James Tassie (1735-1799) or his nephew William (1777-1860); [ and :] a miniature of Nelson after Abbott, and two of Lady Hamilton after Romney. [ Together with ]: Hilda GAMLIN. Emma Lady Hamilton, an old story re-told . Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1891. One volume bound in 2 4° (). 45 portraits, views and facsimiles, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the addition of 84 portraits, views, prints and printed ephemera. Contemporary blue crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, the spines gilt in compartments, titled in two and dated at the foot, the others decorated with heart and fouled anchor tools, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, verso upper cover inset with a strip of wood stated to be from the Victory (spines darkened, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Theodore Seligman (signed with initials on armorial bookplate). [ And :] T.O. CHURCHILL. The Life of Lord Viscount Nelson...Illustrated by engravings of its most striking and memorable incidents . London: T. Bensley for J. and W. Macgavin, 1808. 4° (310 x 250mm). 13 etched plates by W.H. Worthington after W. Bromley, 12 hand-coloured, the 13th folding, and one manuscript facsimile. Contemporary straight-grained blue morocco gilt, the covers elaborately gilt with fillets and floral and foliate tools, the spine gilt in compartments, titled in two and dated at the foot, gilt turn ins, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, rebacked).

MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)

A magnificent miniature of a young lady called Princess Melanie Metternich (1805-1854), in white dress with voluminous sleeves, wearing a belt with gem-set gold buckle, red embroidered Cashmere shawl draped across her shoulders, pearl earrings, her dark upswept hair dress in ringlets; cloudy sky background

A SILVER-GILT AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL FRAME WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 46212

KARL JOSEPH RAABE (1780-1849)

An Important Portrait Miniature of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, facing left in green coat, white pleated lace jabot , maroon drape, curly short hair

A SWISS JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE

GENEVA, CIRCA 1780, WITH PRESTIGE MARKS INCLUDING CROWNED INITIALS J AND T AND CROSSED BRANCHES, THE FLANGE STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NO. 242, THE MINIATURE BY JEAN PETITOT (SWISS, 1607-1691), CIRCA 1670

JEAN-BAPTISTE-JACQUES AUGUSTIN (1759-1832)

An Important Portrait Miniature of the Duke of Berry, facing left in a yellow-piped dark green uniform with black stock and white collar, silver cross sash, aiguillettes and epaulettes, decorated with the badges of the Royal French Orders of the Saint-Louis and the Lily and the blue moiré sash and silver breast star of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost

MARY DILLWYN (1816-1906)

Miniature album of family portraits, still-life and studies of fowl

ISAAC OLIVER (died 1617)

A Highly Important Portrait Miniature of a young Gentleman, facing left in embroidered black silk doublet with elaborately embroidered lace cuffs and stiff collar, long fair curled hair falling on his collar in a lovelock, black hooped earring, holding his right hand to his chest; folded red curtain background

PORTRAIT OF SHAH JAHAN

MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1700

A PORTRAIT OF THE EMPEROR AURANGZEB (R.1658-1707)

MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1700

A PORTRAIT OF KHAN ZAMAN

ATTRIBUTABLE TO BICHITR, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1630

ALEXANDER COOPER (c. 1605-1660)

A Fine and Important Portrait Miniature of Lord William Craven, facing right in embroidered white doublet, wide lace collar, shoulder-length curling hair and moustache

A BELLE EPOQUE PORTRAIT MINIATURE AND DIAMOND PENDANT

AN IMPERIAL FRENCH PARCEL-ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE

THE BOX BY LOUIS-FRANÇOIS TRONQUOY (FL. 1827-1871), MARKED, WITH THE FRENCH POST-1838 STANDARD MARK FOR 18 CARAT GOLD, THE FLANGE STAMPED WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 122 AND INSCRIBED 'G. LEMONNIER. JOAILLIER DE LA COURONNE PLACE VENDÔME, 25.', LATER STRUCK WITH TWO PARISIAN POST-1838 WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD THE MINIATURE BY GABRIEL-ARISTIDE PASSOT (FRENCH, 1797-1875), SIGNED

Patek Philippe. A very fine and unique 18K gold openface keyless lever watch with enamel miniature portrait of George Washington by L. Pellarin-Leroy

SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, GENEVE, REF. 866/15, MOVEMENT NO. 931'926, CASE NO. 433'550, MANUFACTURED IN 1975

TWO PORTRAIT MINIATURES, 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY

By Isaac Oliver (c. 1565-1617) and John Hoskins (c. 1590-1665)

ROSALBA CARRIERA (1675-1757)

A Highly Important Portrait Miniature of Marco Ricci, full face in embroidered gold coat, lace cravat, blue silk cloak falling over his right shoulder, full bottomed curling powdered wig

Charles Germain de SAINT-AUBIN (1721-1786), dessinateur et annotateur. Catalogue d’une belle collection de tableaux, des trois écoles, bronzes, marbres, … qui composent le cabinet de M. l’abbé Le Blanc…par J.B.P. Le Brun [VENTE, 14 février 1781], Paris : Prault, 1781. Catalogue raisonné d'une très-belle collection de tableaux... pastels miniatures... provenant du cabinet de M*… par J. B.P. Le Brun [VENTE Le Bœuf, 8 avril 1783], Paris : Prault, 1783. Catalogue d’une belle collection de tableaux des trois écoles, dessins... par J.B.P. Le Brun [VENTE, 11 décembre 1780], Paris : M. Dufresne et J.P. Le Brun; de l’imprimerie de Prault, 1780. In-8 (189 x 120 mm). Au total 326 pages imprimées auxquelles s’ajoutent 9 feuillets supplémentaires : le catalogue manuscrit des peintres inséré à la fin du catalogue Le Blanc, 6 feuillets et 1 plus petit avec dessins insérés dans le catalogue Le Bœuf, et 1 feuillet avec dessin inséré dans le catalogue Le Brun. Prix de vente, noms des acquéreurs et observations écrites dans les marges (Manque le feuillet de titre du Supplément au catalogue Le Bœuf). Reliure de la fin du XIXe siècle en maroquin rouge à la Du Seuil, dos lisse, tranches anciennes mouchetées bleues conservées (charnières un peu frottées). Provenance : Emeric-David (vente de 1862, n°2145) - Benjamin Fillon (son ex-libris manuscrit sur la garde volante ancienne) – Hippolyte Destailleur (note de deux lignes de sa main sur la première garde volante blanche et sa vente du 26-27 mai 1893, n°122) – baron J. Pichon (ex-libris collé au contreplat et sa vente des 3-14 mai 1897, n°524). EXCEPTIONNELLE RÉUNION DE TROIS CATALOGUES DE VENTE ILLUSTRÉS DE 78 DESSINS ATTRIBUÉS À GERMAIN DE SAINT-AUBIN : 66 croquis au crayon et à la plume dans les marges représentent pour la plupart vases, porcelaines, petits meubles, bustes et bronzes (3 tableaux). Les feuillets supplémentaires, avec 11 dessins de plus grandes dimensions, souvent aquarellés ou au lavis, reproduisent des tableaux de la mystérieuse collection Leboeuf, une Madeleine de Guido Reni retirée à 10 000 livres, Vénus et Adonis de Véronèse, deux paysages de Breughel, le David et Goliath de Puget, etc. Et la Tête d’esclave grecque de Greuze, lot 169 de la «vente montée » de marchands du 11 décembre 1780, que « Basan compte avoir pour rien en la payant 600 livres. Il l’envoie à Stockholm au comte de Molk ». Deux grands dessins concernent des meubles. Un croquis fixe l’image du rideau de nouvelle salle de la comédie italienne ouverte le 29 avril 1783. Prix et noms dans les marges, anecdotes et remarques sur les lots proposés. Ces trois ventes sont réalisées par le grand marchand époux d’Elisabeth Vigée, Jean-Baptise-Pierre Le Brun. L’abbé Le Blanc (1707-1781), historiographe des Bâtiments du roi, critique d’art et marchand sans patente, conseillait les grands amateurs. Une note malicieuse de Germain précède son portrait en frontispice, et attribue à sa "rusticité naturelle" son échec à l’Académie. Lugt 3216, 3550 et 3193 ; Getty Provenance Index F-A636 ; Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, peintre, dessinateur et graveur (1724-1780) , Paris, 1929, 1064-1066, p. 197, avec attribution à Germain de Saint-Aubin. P. Rosenberg, Le "Livre des Saint-Aubin", Paris, RMN, Louvre, 2002. Patrick Michel, Le commerce du tableau à Paris dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle , Villeneuve d’Ascq, 2007.

A RENAISSANCE JEWELED AND ENAMELED GOLD POMANDER SET WITH MINIATURES PORTRAITS

POSSIBLY SCOTLAND, 16TH CENTURY

JOHN SMART (1742/43-1811)

A very Fine Portrait Miniature of Miss Twining, facing left in white dress with ruffled neckline, white sash, double strand of pearls in her short, curling brown hair

A PORTRAIT OF NAWAB MUHSIN KHAN

MUGHAL INDIA, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

A GROUP OF SIKH ROYAL MINIATURE PORTRAITS

NORTHERN INDIA, CIRCA 1850

RICHARD GIBSON (BRITISH, 1615-1690)

A fine portrait miniature of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709), in gold dress with puffed sleeves, slashed to reveal white underdress and fastened at shoulder with three pearl-set bands, diamond-set crucifix worn at corsage, wearing pearl necklace and drop-pearl earring, partly upswept dark hair dressed with further pearls; interior background with pillar