MARIE-NICOLAS PONCE-CAMUS (FRENCH, 1778-1839)

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MARIE-NICOLAS PONCE-CAMUS (FRENCH, 1778-1839)
Sigismond Wolfgang Aloyse Moreau (1746-1825), in blue coat, red waistcoat and lace cravat, powdered hair; forest background
signed and dated 'Ponce Camus an. 7^e^m' (lower left)
on ivory
3 in. (77 mm.) diam., gold frame

Provenance

Christie's, London, 21 June 1999, lot 169.

Literature

N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 427 (without identification of the sitter).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Sigismond Wolfgang Aloyse Moreau was born in Delémont (Switzerland), a son of Germain and Marie-Anne Moreau, first worked as a lawyer at the court of the prince-bishop of Basel from 1767 onward. Later he became a member of the conseil des anciens from 24 Germinal an VI onward, procureur general syndic and later president du tribunal criminel of the newly created French department of Mont-Terrible. He was a member of the French Parliament from 1799 to 1814, became a knight of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour in 1811 and died in Moutier (Switzerland) where he had been grand bailli from 1822 to 1825.
The year 7 of the French Revolutionary calender lasted from September 1798 to September 1799.

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