ANDRÉ-CLAUDE-MARTIN LEFEVRE D'ORGEVAL (fl. c. 1740-1763)

A young Lady, full face in blue lined pale grey silk day-gown with lace underslip and lace cuffs, pink stole draped around her shoulders and fastened with a jewelled brooch on her right shoulder, posy of flowers at corsage and at elbows and in her long po

細節

ANDRÉ-CLAUDE-MARTIN LEFEVRE D'ORGEVAL (fl. c. 1740-1763)
A young Lady, full face in blue lined pale grey silk day-gown with lace underslip and lace cuffs, pink stole draped around her shoulders and fastened with a jewelled brooch on her right shoulder, posy of flowers at corsage and at elbows and in her long powdered curled hair, holding a garland of flowers; landscape background
signed 'Le féure. ft' (lower left)
on vellum
26 in. (63 mm.) diam., silver-gilt frame with pierced scrolling surmount set with foiled paste

來源

Simon Ritter von Metaxa, Vienna; Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 5 April 1921, lot 25 (estimate: 60,000 Austrian crowns).

出版

E. Lemberger, Meisterminiaturen aus fnf Jahrhunderten, Stuttgart, 1911, p. 25, illustrated colour pl. 15.
Miniaturen und Gravuren aus fnf Jahrhunderten, Berlin, n. d., illustrated colour pl. 5.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 480 (praised as 'good').

拍品專文

André-Claude-Martin Lefevre d'Orgeval is listed in the acts of bankruptcy in the Archives Nationales of Paris (D. 4 B6 carton 23, dossier 1263) and his profession is recorded as Peintre en miniature. Until this discovery, nothing was known about this miniaturist who signed his works Le Feure and who is briefly described by L. R. Schidlof (loc. cit.) as 'a miniaturist in France about 1750'.
Lefevre d'Orgeval is recorded as living at the quai Pelletier, in the Parish of Saint-Germain and was declared bankrupt on 8 March 1763. His list of badly paying clients included many of the leading aristocracy; the Duc de Brancas, the Prince of Anhalt, the Princesse de Rohan, the Princesse de Guemenée, the Comte d'Egmont, Lord Hamilton and many others.