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JEAN-LAURENT MOSNIER (FRENCH, 1743/1744 - 1808)
A young lady, seated on a red upholstered chair writing a letter, in pale lilac dress with frilled sleeves, peppermint green bow at corsage, ostrich plumes and foliage in her powdered upswept hair, a quill in her right hand and a letter inscribed ‘n’écrivez / plus et / venez’, a quill and inkstand on the table to her right
Signed and dated ‘mosnier / 1778’ (mid-left)
On ivory
68 mm. diam., in silver-gilt réverbère frame with white enamel border, burgundy moiré silk reverse stamped in gold ‘MOSNIER / 1778’
One of the backing cards with the collection label of Alphonse Maze-Sencier (1831-1892).
A young lady, seated on a red upholstered chair writing a letter, in pale lilac dress with frilled sleeves, peppermint green bow at corsage, ostrich plumes and foliage in her powdered upswept hair, a quill in her right hand and a letter inscribed ‘n’écrivez / plus et / venez’, a quill and inkstand on the table to her right
Signed and dated ‘mosnier / 1778’ (mid-left)
On ivory
68 mm. diam., in silver-gilt réverbère frame with white enamel border, burgundy moiré silk reverse stamped in gold ‘MOSNIER / 1778’
One of the backing cards with the collection label of Alphonse Maze-Sencier (1831-1892).
Provenance
Alphonse Maze-Sencier (1831-1892) Collection, in 1885.
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot,19-20 March 1886 (then on a box, sold 2,900 Gold Francs).
Leboeuf de Montgermont Collection, sold Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 25 May 1891, lot 103 (4,500 Gold Francs).
Félix Panhard (1842-1891) Collection, Paris.
His nephew Hippolyte Panhard.
Thence by family descent until sale of the Panhard Collection, part I, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 5 December 1975, lot 135 (17,000 FF).
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot,19-20 March 1886 (then on a box, sold 2,900 Gold Francs).
Leboeuf de Montgermont Collection, sold Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 25 May 1891, lot 103 (4,500 Gold Francs).
Félix Panhard (1842-1891) Collection, Paris.
His nephew Hippolyte Panhard.
Thence by family descent until sale of the Panhard Collection, part I, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 5 December 1975, lot 135 (17,000 FF).
Literature
A. Maze-Sencier, Le Livre des collectionneurs, Paris, 1885, p. 543 (praised as 'délicieux portrait' and 'portrait séduisant').
L. R. Schidlof, Die Bildnisminiatur in Frankreich im XVII., XVIII. und XIX. Jahrhundert, Vienna and Leipzig, 1911, pp. 37-38.
J.-E. Darmon, Dictionnaire des peintres miniaturistes sur vélin, parchemin, ivoire et écaille, Paris, n.d. [ca. 1925], p. 89.
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres [...], Paris, 1976, p. 565 (mentioned twice).
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650–1850, Paris, 2008, p. 393.
L. R. Schidlof, Die Bildnisminiatur in Frankreich im XVII., XVIII. und XIX. Jahrhundert, Vienna and Leipzig, 1911, pp. 37-38.
J.-E. Darmon, Dictionnaire des peintres miniaturistes sur vélin, parchemin, ivoire et écaille, Paris, n.d. [ca. 1925], p. 89.
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres [...], Paris, 1976, p. 565 (mentioned twice).
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650–1850, Paris, 2008, p. 393.
Exhibited
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Oeuvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle, 1906, no. 367 (lent by Hippolyte Panhard).
Special notice
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