Details
French School, circa 1790
Courtiers and other personnages: Madame de Lamothe in white dress and red spotted headdress; Madame de Polignac in black dress and purple hat with red ribbon; Madame Gaulthier de St. Germain in purple dress and high hat with matching ribbons; Madame de Cagliostro in frilled black dress with white fichu; Madame de Courville in blue dress with pink bow at corsage; Madame Rosalie in low-cut dress, frilled white fichu and blue hat decorated with roses; Monsieur de Clermont Tonnerre in blue coat, striped waistcoat and white cravat; Monsieur de Preminil in black coat and white frilled shirt; and Monsieur de Montlosier in brown coat, blue waistcoat and white cravat
set in silver buttons with paste diamond borders, the sitters' identities engraved on the reverse
1in. (25mm.) diam.
See Front Cover for part lot Illustration (9)
Courtiers and other personnages: Madame de Lamothe in white dress and red spotted headdress; Madame de Polignac in black dress and purple hat with red ribbon; Madame Gaulthier de St. Germain in purple dress and high hat with matching ribbons; Madame de Cagliostro in frilled black dress with white fichu; Madame de Courville in blue dress with pink bow at corsage; Madame Rosalie in low-cut dress, frilled white fichu and blue hat decorated with roses; Monsieur de Clermont Tonnerre in blue coat, striped waistcoat and white cravat; Monsieur de Preminil in black coat and white frilled shirt; and Monsieur de Montlosier in brown coat, blue waistcoat and white cravat
set in silver buttons with paste diamond borders, the sitters' identities engraved on the reverse
1in. (25mm.) diam.
See Front Cover for part lot Illustration (9)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's, 10 July 1990, lot 60
Jeanne de Luz de St. Remy de Valois, Countess of Lamothe (1756-1791), intrigued against the Queen in the Diamond Necklace Affair. She was exiled in 1787 and joined her husband in England where she died.
Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac (1749-1793), married Jules de Polignac in 1767. She was Marie Antoinette's confidant and Governess of the Royal Children.
Madame Gaulthier de St. Germain may have been the wife of Pierre-Marie Gault de St. Germain (1754-1842), a professor at Gueret and later at Clermond-Ferrand. He became the correspondent of the King of Poland and published a large number of works on paintings and drawings.
Madame de Cagliostro may have been the wife of the alchemist Giuseppe Balsamo, Count Cagliostro, the Court magicien.
Mademoiselle Rosalie was a hat-maker in Paris at the end of the 18th Century.
Stanislas Marie Adelaide, Count of Clermont Tonnerre (1757-1792), was deputy for the nobility at the Estates General and the first to claim the abolition of privileges. He was assassinated in 1792 as he was considered to be too close to the monarchy.
François-Dominique de Reyaud, Count of Montlosier (1755-1838), was a deputy at the Assemblee Constituante. He left France for Coblentz, Hamburg and London for the freedom to write and only returned under Napoleon when he gave up his revolutionary ideas and became a royalist. In 1816 he retired from political life.
Jeanne de Luz de St. Remy de Valois, Countess of Lamothe (1756-1791), intrigued against the Queen in the Diamond Necklace Affair. She was exiled in 1787 and joined her husband in England where she died.
Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac (1749-1793), married Jules de Polignac in 1767. She was Marie Antoinette's confidant and Governess of the Royal Children.
Madame Gaulthier de St. Germain may have been the wife of Pierre-Marie Gault de St. Germain (1754-1842), a professor at Gueret and later at Clermond-Ferrand. He became the correspondent of the King of Poland and published a large number of works on paintings and drawings.
Madame de Cagliostro may have been the wife of the alchemist Giuseppe Balsamo, Count Cagliostro, the Court magicien.
Mademoiselle Rosalie was a hat-maker in Paris at the end of the 18th Century.
Stanislas Marie Adelaide, Count of Clermont Tonnerre (1757-1792), was deputy for the nobility at the Estates General and the first to claim the abolition of privileges. He was assassinated in 1792 as he was considered to be too close to the monarchy.
François-Dominique de Reyaud, Count of Montlosier (1755-1838), was a deputy at the Assemblee Constituante. He left France for Coblentz, Hamburg and London for the freedom to write and only returned under Napoleon when he gave up his revolutionary ideas and became a royalist. In 1816 he retired from political life.