JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY (FRENCH, 1767-1855)

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JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY (FRENCH, 1767-1855)
A gentleman, in brown coat, white waistcoat and tied cravat, powdered hair
Signed ‘Isabey’ (lower left)
On ivory
67 mm. diam., gold frame with blue enamel borders, the reverse set with hairwork on blue silk ground

Provenance

The Estate of widow Teutsch, Nancy; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Room 10, 10 February 1931, Supplement no. i.
Marwitz Collection, Freiburg, in 1932.
W. Gütermann Collection, Turin, inv. no. 95; Sotheby's, Zurich, 15 November 1977, lot 62.

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Lot Essay

A similar portrait miniature by Isabey of the same period is in the Bruni Tedeschi Collection at the Palazzo Madama, Turin (see Miniatures from the Bruni Tedeschi Collection, Turin, 2005, p. 101, no. 17a-b, illustrated in colour).

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