THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
JOSEPH BOZE, signed, circa 1815
Details
JOSEPH BOZE, signed, circa 1815
Louis XVIII (1755-1824), King of France 1814/1815-1824, with receding powdered hair, wearing a blue uniform with gold épaulettes, decorated with the blue moiré sash and the silver breast-star of the Royal French Order of the Saint-Esprit, the red badge of the Royal French Order of the Saint-Louis, the green badge and the silver breast-star of the Order of Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel; rectangular -- 66 x 61 mm, gilt-metal mount with metal reverse.
Louis XVIII (1755-1824), King of France 1814/1815-1824, with receding powdered hair, wearing a blue uniform with gold épaulettes, decorated with the blue moiré sash and the silver breast-star of the Royal French Order of the Saint-Esprit, the red badge of the Royal French Order of the Saint-Louis, the green badge and the silver breast-star of the Order of Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel; rectangular -- 66 x 61 mm, gilt-metal mount with metal reverse.
Provenance
Professor Salzmann Collection, Vienna; his sale, Kunst-Auktions-Salon S. Kende and Leo Schidlof, Vienna, 20 March 1918, lot 110; Alfred von Strasser-Sánczi Collection, Vienna (in 1924 and 1931).
Literature
Léo R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 112, II, p. 944, ill. IV, pl. 91, nr 162.
Exhibited
Internationale Miniaturenausstellung in der Albertina Wien, May-June 1924, nr 121 (lent by Alfred von Strasser-Sánczi, Vienna); Das gemalte Kleinporträt, Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, 1931, nr 17 (lent by Alfred von Strasser-Sánczi, Vienna); Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, Vienna, Albertina, March-May 1965, nr 41.