Claire de Morel-Vindé (1782-1807), facing right in white muslin dress with striped gauze sleeves, short curling dark hair

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JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY (1767-1855)
Claire de Morel-Vindé (1782-1807), facing right in white muslin dress with striped gauze sleeves, short curling dark hair
signed 'Isabey' (lower right)
2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) diam., later gilt-metal frame with easel stand

Provenance

By descent in the family of the sitter.

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Lot Essay

The backing paper is inscribed 'Portrait trés ressemblant de ma fille Claire par isabey 1798 en decembre'
Claire, daughter of Charles Gilbert de Morel-Vindé and his wife Elisabeth Choppin d'Arnouville, married Claude Hippolyte Terray (1774-1849) on 10 January 1799. After her early death, Terray remarried twice. Claire and Terray had four children including Claudine Béatrix, marquise de Belbeuf (see lot 241).
An autograph replica of the present miniature is in the Château de La Motte-Tilly at Nogent-sur-Seine, inv. no. 90-19.
We are indebted to Mr Franck Gérard, agent de conservation at the Château de La Motte-Tilly, for his assistance in the research and cataloguing of the present miniature.

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