JEAN-URBAIN GUÉRIN, signed, circa 1790/1792

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JEAN-URBAIN GUÉRIN, signed, circa 1790/1792

A fine miniature of a young man called the Revolutionary Marguerite-Élie Guadet, with powdered short curly wig, wearing a blue coat and blue-bordered ochre waistcoat with knotted frilled cravat and muslin jabot; oval -- 74 mm high, fine chased gilt-bronze frame within a rectangular veneered lemonwood panel

Provenance

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner from Leo R. Schidlof

Exhibited

Internationale Miniaturenausstellung in der Albertina Wien, May-June 1924, nr 422 (catalogued as a portrait of Guadet, lent by Leo R. Schidlof)

Lot Essay

Marguerite-Élie Guadet (1758-1794) was elected deputy of the Gironde at the Assemblée législative in 1791, and became a member of the club of the Jacobins. After the condemnation of Louis XVI, he tried to obtain a stay of execution for the King, but due to the hostile attitude of Danton and Marat towards the Girondins, he was in danger of death himself. He left Paris and fled to Caen and finally to his birthplace Saint-Émilion where he hid at the home of his sister-in-law. He was caught and transported to Bordeaux where he was guillotined.

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