A young Lady, full face in blue lined pale grey silk day-gown with lace underslip and lace cuffs, pink stole draped around her shoulders and fastened with a jewelled brooch on her right shoulder, posy of flowers at corsage and at elbows and in her long po

André-Claude-Martin Lefevre d'Orgeval is listed in the acts of bankruptcy in the Archives Nationales of Paris (D. 4 B6 carton 23, dossier 1263) and his profession is recorded as Peintre en miniature. Until this discovery, nothing was known about this miniaturist who signed his works Le Feure and who is briefly described by L. R. Schidlof (loc. cit.) as 'a miniaturist in France about 1750'.
Lefevre d'Orgeval is recorded as living at the quai Pelletier, in the Parish of Saint-Germain and was declared bankrupt on 8 March 1763. His list of badly paying clients included many of the leading aristocracy; the Duc de Brancas, the Prince of Anhalt, the Princesse de Rohan, the Princesse de Guemenée, the Comte d'Egmont, Lord Hamilton and many others.