JEAN PETITOT THE YOUNGER, circa 1680

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JEAN PETITOT THE YOUNGER, circa 1680

A young lady called the Maréchale de l'Hospital (died 1651), her centre-parted curly brown hair entwined with long blue ribbons and a yellow gauze scarf, wearing a blue-edged strawberry-coloured dress with white lace underslip; enamel on gold, oval -- 27 mm high, restored hairline cracks to the right hand border, chased and engraved gold mount within a hinged blue-enamelled gold rope border.

Provenance

Henry G. Bohn Collection, Twickenham; the sale of his estate, Christie's, London, 19-27 March 1885, lot 831 (57 gns to Volkins); Baroness Burdett-Coutts Collection (in 1889); the sale of her estate, Christie's London, 9-11 May 1922, lot 414 (22 gns. to the London dealer Frank Sabin).

Literature

Ernest Stroehlin, Jean Petitot et Jaques Bordier, Geneva, 1905, p. 273, nr 2; Henri Clouzot, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes sur émail, Paris, 1924, p. 163; Mariano Tomás, La miniatura retrato en España, Spain, 1953, ill. colour pl. XI.

Exhibited

Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1889, case 11, nr 45, as by Jean Petitot the Younger (lent by Baroness Burdett-Coutts).

Lot Essay

The counter-enamel is inscribed: "Mme La Marechale de l'Hospital".
With the exception of the Exhibition catalogue of 1889, the present enamel was considered as a work of Jean Petitot the Father. We are indebted to Dr. Hans Boeckh, Geneva, for authentifying this miniature as one of Petitot the Younger's rare works.

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