JEAN-PIERRE AND AMY HUAUD, signed on the counter-enamel "fratres Huauts pinxerunt", circa 1690/1700

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JEAN-PIERRE AND AMY HUAUD, signed on the counter-enamel "fratres Huauts pinxerunt", circa 1690/1700

Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg with centre-parted brown full-bottomed wig and slight moustache, wearing a damascened armour and a knotted white lace cravat, decorated with the blue sash of the English Order of the Garter; enamel on gold, oval -- 22 mm high, markassite-set silver frame

Provenance

From the Collection of Alphonse-Lambert-Eugène, ridder de Stuers (1841-1919), envoyé extraordinaire and ministre plénipotentiaire of H. M. The Queen of the Netherlands to the French Republic; his sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Müller, 15 April 1932, lot 807D

Lot Essay

Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg (1657-1713), son of the Great Elector, succeeded his father in 1688 and crowned himself "King in Prussia" in 1701.
On 18 May 1686, Jean-Pierre and Amy Huaud were appointed enamel painters to the Elector of Brandenburg with an annuity of 200 Thaler for each brother. On 16 August 1700, they asked for their dismissal and returned to Geneva. The present miniature corresponds probably to the portraits of the head only which were paid 30 Thaler piece (see Henri Clouzot, La miniature sur Émail en France, Paris n.d., p. 107).

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