JEAN-DANIEL WELPER, circa 1750

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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JEAN-DANIEL WELPER, circa 1750

Louise-Henriette, Duchess of Chartres, as Hebe, the goddess of youth and cupbearer to the gods offering a drink to Jupiter, in the guise of an eagle; on parchment, oval -- 78 mm wide, gilt-metal mount

Provenance

Groult Collection, Paris

Literature

Henri Bouchot, La miniature française, 1750-1825, Paris 1907, illustr. opp. p. 54
Max von Boehn, Miniaturen und Silhouetten, Munich 1918, p. 58-59, illustr. nr 53 (as by Cazaubon after Nattier)
Walter Holzhausen, "Dosen und Miniaturen", Keysers Kunst-und Antiquitätenbuch, Heidelberg 1957, p. 81 (verbo "Cazaubon")

Exhibited

Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, Vienna, Albertina, 24 March - 10 May 1965, nr 368

Lot Essay

Princess Louise-Henriette de Bourbon-Conti (1726-1759) was married to the Duc de Chartres, called Gros Louis, later Duc d'Orléans, in 1743. She was the mother of the future Philippe-Égalité. The present miniature is after Nattier's oil portrait of 1744 which was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1745 (now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, inv. nr NM 1186).

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