Details
PIERRE ROUVIER (b. after 1742 - d. after 1815)
Louis-Marie Dulieu de Chenevoux, facing left in the uniform of the régiment du Roy infanterie, white coat with gold-embroidered blue facings, gold epaulettes, frilled white shirt, wearing a blue peaked hat embroidered in gold with the fleur-de-lys with white crown and tasseled bonnet
signed 'Rouv[ier] 17[ ] (lower right)
oval, 2¼ in. (57 mm.) high, gold mount, set in the cover of a circular gold-mounted dark composition bonbonnière
Provenance
(?) Félix Doistau Collection, Paris (as signed and dated 1782).
Sotheby's, Monte-Carlo, 4 May 1977, lot 104.
Literature
(?) L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, pp. 702.
Exhibited
(?) Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, OEuvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle, 1906, no. 411 (as signed and dated 1782, lent by Félix Doistau).
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