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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'.
Provenance
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.
Literature
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.
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