Marquis de Brienne in gold-embroidered bordeaux-red brocade coat, gold-embroidered waistcoat, white lace shirt with lace cuffs and frilled jabot, powdered curled wig en queue with black silk wig-bag and solitaire, his left hand slipped in his waistcoat, a gold-bordered black tricorn hat under his left arm, decorated with the badge of the Royal French Military Order of St. Louis; foliage, cloudy sky and column background

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CIRCLE OF JEAN-DANIEL WELPER, CIRCA 1745
Marquis de Brienne in gold-embroidered bordeaux-red brocade coat, gold-embroidered waistcoat, white lace shirt with lace cuffs and frilled jabot, powdered curled wig en queue with black silk wig-bag and solitaire, his left hand slipped in his waistcoat, a gold-bordered black tricorn hat under his left arm, decorated with the badge of the Royal French Military Order of St. Louis; foliage, cloudy sky and column background
on vellum laid down on card
rectangular, 2 x 2¾ in. (50 x 70 mm.), reeded silver-gilt frame with blue silk reverse

Provenance

Leblond Collection; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 1 February 1870, lot 328.
Félix Panhard (1842-1891); part II, Paris, Drouot-Rive Gauche, Gare d'Orsay, 18 March 1976, lot 81 (as attributed to Toqué).
With Bensimon, Paris, about 1979/1980.

Literature

Ch. Masson/C. Temple, 'Le charme discret des miniatures', L'Estampille, 73, 15 January 1976, illustrated in colour p. 8 (enlarged detail).

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Lot Essay

The sitter is probably identical with the Marquis de Brienne, colonel of the Artois regiment in the army of King Louis XV, who died heroically during the Battle of Exiles in 1747 fighting against the troops of the King of Sardinia. After he lost one arm, he returned to the fences and declared 'Il m'en reste un autre pour le service du roi' and was killed.

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