ANTOINE-PAUL VINCENT (FRENCH, FL. C. 1790 - 1810)

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ANTOINE-PAUL VINCENT (FRENCH, FL. C. 1790 - 1810)
A young musician, seated at a table with a violin and bow in his left hand, a quill in his right hand, writing a musical score at a table set with an ink box and guitar, wearing a blue coat with gold buttons, yellow waistcoat and knotted white cravat; blue curtain background with a bust of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Signed ‘Vincent’ (lower left)
On ivory
Rectangular, 108 x 104 mm., gilt-metal mount
A faint inscription on the backing paper reads 'L[...] célèbre violiniste / émule de Kreuzer né à Rennes [?] / en Bretagne premier / prix [...] / peint par Vincent qui a / remporté le 1ier prix / par cet ouvrage à Paris [?]’.

Provenance

Leo Schidlof’s Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 6-7 June 1921, lot 237.
Christie’s, London, 22 November 1999, lot 73.

Literature

L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 853 (praised as ‘important’).
C. Henry, ‘Marché de l’art. Mignons, mignonnes’, Trends-Tendances. Cash!, 25 May 2000, p. 30, illustrated in colour.

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Lot Essay

According to the inscription on the backing card, the sitter was a pupil of Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831), a French violinist, teacher, conductor and composer of numerous French operas, including 'La mort d'Abel' of 1810.

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