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細節
FRENCH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
A young gentleman aged twenty-one, formerly called Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France 1774-1792, in lilac coat, white waistcoat, powdered hair dressed en queue
bearing false signature and date 'Vestier / 1775' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 1.7/8 in. (50 mm.) high, ormolu frame with foliate surround and surmounted with foliate wreath
A paper label on the reverse reads 'Vestier / Louis XVI / a 21ans / DXV'.
A young gentleman aged twenty-one, formerly called Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France 1774-1792, in lilac coat, white waistcoat, powdered hair dressed en queue
bearing false signature and date 'Vestier / 1775' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 1.7/8 in. (50 mm.) high, ormolu frame with foliate surround and surmounted with foliate wreath
A paper label on the reverse reads 'Vestier / Louis XVI / a 21ans / DXV'.
來源
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Etude Picard, 6 November 1995, lot 174 (as a presumed portrait of Louis XVI, by Vestier).
Alain Bancel Collection, Paris; (+) Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 May 2003, lot 336.
Alain Bancel Collection, Paris; (+) Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 May 2003, lot 336.
出版
J.-C. Sueur, Le Portraitiste Antoine Vestier (1740-1824), Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1974, p. 118, no. 20.
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 520.
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 520.
注意事項
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.
榮譽呈獻
Katharine Cooke