JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY, signed and dated 1817

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JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY, signed and dated 1817

A fine miniature representing Madame de Pavant, her curly brown hair adorned with a plum-coloured velvet cap with a large white ostrich feather and gold embroidery, wearing a matching dress with high muslin ruff collar and gold-striped white puff-sleeves, a flowing long white gauze veil falling from her head to her waist, a gold medallion suspended from a double gold chain tucked into her belt; sky background; on vellum, oval -- 13.4 cm high, fine chased gilt bronze mount within a rectangular veneered lemonwood panel set with four pierced gilt bronze spandrels

Provenance

By direct family descent from the sitter to the present owner

Engraved

Lithography by G. Engelmann (mentioned in Mme de Basily-Callimaki, J.-B. Isabey, sa vie - son temps, Paris 1909, pp. 289, 431 nr 108)

Lot Essay

Émilie-Augustine Mony (1778-1837), daughter of the lawyer Jacques-Michel Mony and his wife Catherine-Marthe née Jardin, was married to the wealthy Parisian notaire André-Pierre Fourcault de Pavant in 1797. She was the mother of André-Émile Fourcault de Pavant (see preceding lot).

The Pavant family was very friendly with Isabey and his circle, frequently receiving in their country house near Versailles the miniaturist, his son-in-law Cicéri and their families.

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