Details
JEAN-BAPTISTE SOYER, circa 1795/1800
A gentleman with centre-parted powdered long hair and sideburns, waist-length slightly to the right, wearing an aubergine-coloured coat with striped yellow waistcoat and open white shirt -- 69 mm diam., gilt-metal mount.
A gentleman with centre-parted powdered long hair and sideburns, waist-length slightly to the right, wearing an aubergine-coloured coat with striped yellow waistcoat and open white shirt -- 69 mm diam., gilt-metal mount.
Provenance
David David-Weill (1871-1952), Neuilly-sur-Seine, nr 574; sold by Wildenstein's, Paris to Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London; "The Clore Collection of Portrait Miniatures", part II, Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1986, lot 79 (erroneously as by Spargren).
Literature
Carlo Jeannerat and Henri Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, nr 196 (erroneously as by Spargren), ill. p. 307.
Exhibited
Claude Hoin, Paris, Galerie André Weil, November-December 1934, nr 75 (erroneously as by Claude Hoin); Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750-1850, Vienna, Albertina, March-May 1965, nr 353 (erroneously as by Spargren).