A gentleman, facing right in brown coat, white and yellow striped waistcoat and open white shirt, powdered hair and sideburns
Details
JEAN-BAPTISTE SOYER (1752-1828)
A gentleman, facing right in brown coat, white and yellow striped waistcoat and open white shirt, powdered hair and sideburns
2.11/16 in. (68 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount set in the lid of a circular black composition bonbonnire
A gentleman, facing right in brown coat, white and yellow striped waistcoat and open white shirt, powdered hair and sideburns
2.11/16 in. (68 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount set in the lid of a circular black composition bonbonnire
Provenance
David David-Weill (1871-1952), Neuilly-sur-Seine, no. 574.
Sold by Wildenstein's Paris to Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London.
The Clore Collection of Portrait Miniatures, part II, sold Sotheby's London, 10 November 1986, lot 79 (erroneously as by Spargren).
Sold by Wildenstein's Paris to Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London.
The Clore Collection of Portrait Miniatures, part II, sold Sotheby's London, 10 November 1986, lot 79 (erroneously as by Spargren).
Literature
C. Jeannerat and H. Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, no. 196 (erroneously as by Spargren), illustrated p. 307.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Andr Weil, 1934, no. 75 (erroneously as by Claude Hoin).
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750-1850, 1965, no. 196 (erroneously as by Spargren).
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750-1850, 1965, no. 196 (erroneously as by Spargren).