Lot 225
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ANDRÉ LÉON LARUE, CALLED MANSION (FRENCH, 1785 - AFTER 1837)
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ANDRÉ LÉON LARUE, CALLED MANSION (FRENCH, 1785 - AFTER 1837)

A young gentleman in fur-bordered black coat, white-bordered red scarf knotted around his white shirt, curling dark hair and moustache

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ANDRÉ LÉON LARUE, CALLED MANSION (FRENCH, 1785 - AFTER 1837)
A young gentleman in fur-bordered black coat, white-bordered red scarf knotted around his white shirt, curling dark hair and moustache
signed and dated 'mansion. 1819.' (lower left)
oval, 5 5/16 in. (135 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular black wood frame
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Lot Essay

Another version of this miniature, miscatalogued as 'attributed to Charles Berny d'Ouville, circa 1810', is in the Tansey Collection, Celle, and illustrated on the dust jacket of D. Otten, Miniaturen des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Tansey, Munich, 2002.

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