A LOUIS XV GOLD-MOUNTED LACQUER SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE

BY PIERRE-ÉDOUARD NEUVE, MARKED, PARIS, 1769/1770, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF JULIEN ALATERRE, THE MINIATURE BY FRANOIS DUMONT

细节

A LOUIS XV GOLD-MOUNTED LACQUER SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE
by Pierre-Édouard Neuve, marked, Paris, 1769/1770, with the charge and discharge marks of Julien Alaterre, the miniature by Franois Dumont
Oval box, the cover centred by an oval portrait miniature depicting a young Lady with pink roses and a turquoise blue silk ribbon in her upswept powdered hair, the lacquer box decorated all over with vertical stripes of gold alternating with black, the pierced gold borders engraved with leafy wavescrolls enclosing ovolos, the inside lined with red and black flecked lacquered horn panels
92 mm. (3.5/8 in.) wide

出版

E. Mannoni, "La miniature ... cette méconnue", Art et Décoration, 258, October 1985, illustrated in colour p. 89 and praised as "de qualité exceptionnelle".

展览

Paris, Galerie Marigny, Miniatures du XVIe au XIXe siècle, 1985, no. 76.

拍品专文

The Parisian goldsmith Pierre-Edouard Neuve struck his mark in 1750 and was recorded until 1768.
According to Leo R. Schidlof (The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 222), Franois Dumont (1751-1831) was "undoubtedly one of the greatest miniaturists of his period." He was miniature painter to Queen Marie-Antoinette of France and portrayed the French Royal Family from King Louis XVI to King Louis-Philippe.