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    10 June 2008

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    • JEAN-BAPTISTE SOYER (FRENCH, 1
    Lot 26

    JEAN-BAPTISTE SOYER (FRENCH, 1752-1828)

    A gentleman, in brown coat, white and yellow striped waistcoat and open white shirt, powdered hair and sideburns

    Price realised

    GBP 1,062

    Estimate

    GBP 500 - GBP 700

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    JEAN-BAPTISTE SOYER (FRENCH, 1752-1828)
    A gentleman, in brown coat, white and yellow striped waistcoat and open white shirt, powdered hair and sideburns
    on ivory
    2 11/16 in. (68 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount set in the lid of a circular tortoisehell bonbonnière

    Provenance

    David David-Weill (1871-1952) Collection, Neuilly-sur-Seine, no. 574.
    Sold by Wildenstein's, Paris to Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London.
    The Clore Collection of Portrait Miniatures, part II sold Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1986, lot 79 (erroneously as by Spargren).

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    L. Gillet/C. Jeannerat/H. Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, p. 306, no. 196 (erroneously as by Spargren), illustrated p. 307.


    Exhibited

    Paris, Galerie André Weil, Claude Hoin, 1934, no. 75 (erroneously as by Claude Hoin).
    Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750-1850, 1965, no. 196 (as by Spargren).


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