Lot Essay
The present miniature appears to be the only signed work by this interesting artist. All other attributions to him are based on the present portrait.
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A young gentleman in fur-bordered pale blue silk coat with blue frogging, lace cravat, powdered wig, wearing the cross of the Royal French Military Order of St. Louis suspended from a red ribbon
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NICOLAS HALLÉ (FRENCH, FL. C. 1782)
A young gentleman in fur-bordered pale blue silk coat with blue frogging, lace cravat, powdered wig, wearing the cross of the Royal French Military Order of St. Louis suspended from a red ribbon
signed and dated 'halle 1782' (lower right)
1 15/16 in. (50 mm.) diam., stamped gilt-metal mount, set on the cover of a gilt-metal tortoiseshell lined blue composition bonbonnière
A young gentleman in fur-bordered pale blue silk coat with blue frogging, lace cravat, powdered wig, wearing the cross of the Royal French Military Order of St. Louis suspended from a red ribbon
signed and dated 'halle 1782' (lower right)
1 15/16 in. (50 mm.) diam., stamped gilt-metal mount, set on the cover of a gilt-metal tortoiseshell lined blue composition bonbonnière
Provenance
Madame Levaigneur; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2 May 1912, lot 216.
Edouard Warneck; sale, part II, Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 19 November 1924, lot 75.
Edouard Warneck; sale, part II, Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 19 November 1924, lot 75.
Literature
J. de Bourgoing, Die französische Bildnisminiatur, Vienna, 1928, illustrated pl. 45.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 329, both verbo Nicolas Hallé and Noël Hallé, praised as 'very good', II, p. 968, illustrated III, pl. 257, no. 513.
Musée Cognacq-Jay - Les Miniatures, Paris, 2002, p. 86.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 329, both verbo Nicolas Hallé and Noël Hallé, praised as 'very good', II, p. 968, illustrated III, pl. 257, no. 513.
Musée Cognacq-Jay - Les Miniatures, Paris, 2002, p. 86.
Exhibited
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 437.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.