JEAN-BAPTISTE-BÉNIGNE GAGNERAUX (1765-1846)

A young lady, facing right in the guise of Hebe feeding the eagle, in loose white robes revealing her right breast, blue stole draped over her shoulders, her brown hair plaited and upswept; cloud and sky background

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JEAN-BAPTISTE-BÉNIGNE GAGNERAUX (1765-1846)
A young lady, facing right in the guise of Hebe feeding the eagle, in loose white robes revealing her right breast, blue stole draped over her shoulders, her brown hair plaited and upswept; cloud and sky background
signed and dated 'gagneraux 1803' (lower right)
rectangular, 2.15/16 x 23/8 in. (75 x 61 mm.), gilt-metal mount

Lot Essay

The painter and miniaturist J.-B.-C.-B. Gagneraux, younger brother of Bénigne Gagneraux, is discussed in U. Thieme/F. Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. 13, Leipzig, 1920, p. 66 and one of his miniatures is illustrated in M. Geiger, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon - Catalogue des Pastels, Gouaches, Miniatures, Dijon, 1972, pl. XXII, no. 157.

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