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Comte Richard de Vesvrotte, officer of the Cuirassiers of the Royal Guard, in blue coat with red collar with silver lace, epaulettes and aiguillettes, steel cuirass charged with French Royal arms in gilt; stormy sky background
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JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY (FRENCH, 1767-1855)
Comte Richard de Vesvrotte, officer of the Cuirassiers of the Royal Guard, in blue coat with red collar with silver lace, epaulettes and aiguillettes, steel cuirass charged with French Royal arms in gilt; stormy sky background
signed and dated 'J. Isabey. 1833' (mid right)
on papier vélin
rectangular, 5½ x 3 15/16 in. (140 x 102 mm.), stamped gilt-metal frame with applied name plate (as 'Vervrote'), pierced anthemion and rosettes surmount
Comte Richard de Vesvrotte, officer of the Cuirassiers of the Royal Guard, in blue coat with red collar with silver lace, epaulettes and aiguillettes, steel cuirass charged with French Royal arms in gilt; stormy sky background
signed and dated 'J. Isabey. 1833' (mid right)
on papier vélin
rectangular, 5½ x 3 15/16 in. (140 x 102 mm.), stamped gilt-metal frame with applied name plate (as 'Vervrote'), pierced anthemion and rosettes surmount
Provenance
Edouard Warneck Collection, Paris; part I sold Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 11 April 1924, lot 73.
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 397 (described as 'good').
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium