Lot 57
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Guibert, 1790
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Guibert, 1790

Details
Guibert, 1790
A young ‘Poldarkesque’ gentleman in grey coat and tricorn hat
Signed and dated ‘Guibert pinxit. 1790’ (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 66 mm., high, gilt-metal frame, hair panel reverse with the letter ‘M’
Provenance
Goldschmidt Collection, Vienna; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 5 September 1936, lot 973, acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter (inv. nos. MD/0105 and 272).
Literature
von der Mühll 1947, p. 42, illustrated in colour no. 8.
Holzscheiter 1961, p. 40, illustrated fig. 5.
Schidlof 1964, I, p. 320 (described as ‘of very fine quality’), II, p. 966, illustrated III, pl. 253, fig. 501.
Lemoine-Bouchard 2008, p. 275.
Exhibited
Arenenberg 1954, no. 18.
Zurich 1955, no. 373.
Zurich 1957-58 and 1961.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Schidlof (supra) suggests the artist may be Jean-Honoré-Marie Guibert, son of the sculptor Honoré Guibert, or the engraver François Guibert who became a member of the Commune Générale des Arts in Paris in 1793. Lemoine-Bouchard (supra) suggests the artist is François Guibert.

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