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JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
Charles-Ferdinand of Bourbon (1778-1820), Duc de Berry, in dark green uniform with red collar, silver epaulettes, black stock, wearing the breast-star of the Royal French Order of Saint Esprit and the badges of Saint Louis, the Lily and the Legion of Honour
on ivory
oval, 3½ in. (90 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount with stamped surround, within rectangular wood frame applied with two glazed oval reserves containing locks of hair, gilt-metal surrounds engraved 'Charles Ferdinand 13 Fevrier 1820.' and 'Caroline Ferdinande 14 Fevrier 1820.', gilt-metal plaque engraved 'Donné à Mgr l'Evêque de Chartres, Par S.A.R. Madame la Dsse de Berry', and gilt fleur-de-lys spandrels
Provenance
Given to the Bishop of Chartres, probably Jean-Baptist-Marie-Anne-Antoine de Latil, Bishop of Chartres 1817-1824, by the Duchesse de Berry.
Dr Ludwig Ritter von Flesch-Festau Collection, Vienna.
Friedrich Neuburg Collection, Litomerice; part I, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 March 1939, lot 56.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen; part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March, 1977, lot 171.
Literature
E. Lemberger, Portrait Miniatures of Five Centuries, London, [n.d.], pl. 30.
E. Lemberger, Meisterminiaturen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, 1911, illustrated in colour pl. 30.
L. R. Schidlof, Die Bildnis-Miniatur in Frankreich, Vienna and Leipzig, 1911, p. 70.
H. Rieben, Bildnisminiaturen, Berne, 1951, p. 28, illustrated in colour pl. 29.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 54.
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 63.
Exhibited
Arenenberg, Napoleonmuseum, Miniaturen und Karikaturen, 1954, no. 3.
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