Lot Essay
The sitter wears the uniform of a cavalry officer of the regiment of Queen Marie-Antoinette. The 1993 sale catalogue pointed out that the cockade is still white, and not tricolore.
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JACQUES-ANTOINE-MARIE LEMOINE (FRENCH, 1751-1824)
A young cavalry officer in red-piped blue uniform with silver epaulettes, seated at a table with open treatise on horses next to his plumed tricorn hat
signed and dated 'LEMOINE 1791' (upper right)
on ivory
3 in. (76 mm.) diam., gold mount
A young cavalry officer in red-piped blue uniform with silver epaulettes, seated at a table with open treatise on horses next to his plumed tricorn hat
signed and dated 'LEMOINE 1791' (upper right)
on ivory
3 in. (76 mm.) diam., gold mount
Provenance
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, room 2, 12 February 1993, lot 32 (then on a blonde tortoiseshell box).
Literature
N. Jeffares, 'Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751-1824)', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, February 1999, no. 103, illustrated p. 111.
Special notice
Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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