A young gentleman, seated in a pink upholstered gilt chair with his left arm leaning on a marble-topped gilt-wood table holding a book in his hand, in green coat with silver buttons, grey trousers, white waistcoat and stock, long powdered hair; draped red curtain with gold tassels and panelling background

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FRANÇOIS-XAVIER-LOUIS HOHR (FRENCH, 1766-1848)
A young gentleman, seated in a pink upholstered gilt chair with his left arm leaning on a marble-topped gilt-wood table holding a book in his hand, in green coat with silver buttons, grey trousers, white waistcoat and stock, long powdered hair; draped red curtain with gold tassels and panelling background
signed and dated 'L. Hohr. Pix 1797.' (lower left)
2¼ in. (57 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame, the reverse with ivory urn on a plinth with inscription 'SOUVENIR D'AMITIE' on striped hair ground scattered with stars

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Lot Essay

For an account on this interesting Alsacian painter, see F. Pupil, 'Les débuts d'une collection: Les miniatures du Musée d'Unterlinden', Société Schongauer, Musée d'Unterlinden, Bulletin 1997-2000, Colmar, 2001, p. 141.
For a miniature by François-Joseph Hohr, see lot 134.

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