King Charles I (1600-1649), facing right in gilt-studded armour, lace-bordered wide white lawn collar with tassel, wearing the badge of the Order of the Garter suspended from a blue ribbon around his neck, long brown hair, moustache and beard

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PIERRE ADOLPHE HALL (1739-1793)
King Charles I (1600-1649), facing right in gilt-studded armour, lace-bordered wide white lawn collar with tassel, wearing the badge of the Order of the Garter suspended from a blue ribbon around his neck, long brown hair, moustache and beard
signed 'hall' (mid-right)
1.13/16 in. (47 mm.) diam., artist's joins, gold mount with bright-cut border, set in the lid of an oval gold-lined composition snuff-box by Alexandre Leferre (fl. 1837 - after 1860)

Provenance

with Mr Lyon ('Au Square Louis XVI'), Paris.

Literature

F. Villot, Hall, célèbre miniaturiste du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1867, p. 89.
L'OEil, May 1985, no. 358, illustrated p. 91.
R. de Plinval de Guillebon, Pierre Adolphe Hall (1739-1793). Miniaturiste suédois. Peintre du Roi et des Enfants de France, Paris, 2000, no. 34.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Marigny, Miniatures du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, 1985, no. 82, illustrated p. 18, pl. IV.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present miniature is listed in Madame Hall's fee book of her husband's works (published in Villot, supra), for the year 1786 (and not for 1789 as indicated erroneously by Villot, p. 89): 'Charles pr (premier?) 240 [livres]'. Hall, who admired Van Dyck's works, owned five drawings by Rubens and twelve by Van Dyck. Several other miniatures by Hall after 17th century paintings are recorded (see G. Cavalli-Björkman, Svenskt Miniatyrmaleri, Stockholm 1981, pp. 96-97, fig. 80-81).

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