Jacques Thouron
Portrait of Louise-Maria-Adélaïde, Duchesse d’Orleans (1753-1821), after Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
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January 31, 03:58 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Attributed to Jacques Thouron
Geneva 1740 - 1789 Paris
Portrait of Louise-Maria-Adélaïde, Duchesse d’Orleans (1753-1821), after Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
enamel, in a bronze and silver frame bordered in blue enamel and stored in a red box lined with green velvet
4 ½ by 3 ¾ in.; 114 by 92 mm
Monsieur Vincent, Paris,
by descent to his son, Prosper Vincent, 2 April 1883;
Felix Panhard (for 210,000 gold francs),
by family descent to his nephew, Hippolyte Panhard, Paris,
his sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, 5 December 1975, lot 156 (as Francois Soiron),
sale, London, Christie’s, 12 June 2006, lot 54 (as by Jacques Thouron),
sale, Paris, Piasa, Hôtel Drouot Richelieu, 25 June 2008, lot 30 (as by Francois Soiron),
Where acquired by the present owner.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition des cent chefs-d’ouevres, 1884-1885 (on loan from the collection of Felix Panhard);
Paris, Bilbiotheque Nationale, Exposition d’oeuvres d’art du XIIIe siècle: Miniatures, gouaches, estampes en couleurs francaises et anglaises 1750-1815, medailles et pierres gravees 1700-1800, biscuits de Sevres, Oeuvres d’art XIIIe siècle, 1906, no. 438 (as Portrait de Madame la Duchesse d’Orleans, femme de Philippe-Egalite, d’apres Mme Vigee-Lebrun, as by Francois Soiron).
Saint-Denis, ‘Promenade rue de Seze,’ Le Bulletin des Beaux-Arts; Repertoir des Artistes Francais, 2nd year, 1884-1885, p. 12;
L.R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz 1964, vol. II, p. 768;
J. Baillio, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun 1755-1842, exhibition catalogue, Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 1982, no. 28, p. 83.
Although this enamel has in the past been given to Jean Francois Soiron (Geneva 1756-2823 Paris), an attribution to his fellow Swiss painter, Jacques Thouron is most plausible. Thouron is known to have made enamels after Vigée Le Brun and the technique of the present lot contains much of the liquid fluidity that is akin to his hand.1
The sitter was the daughter of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthievre and Princess Maria Teresa d’Este. She married Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, ‘Philippe Égalité, and she was mother to Louis Phillippe, who was crowned King of the French in 1830 after the July Revolution. The present enamel is after a portrait by Vigée Le Brun, the prime version of which was painted in 1789 on the eve of the revolution. Variants exist at the Palace of Versailles and the Musée de Longchamp in Marseille.
1 For another enamel see J. Baillio et al, Vigee le Brun.
