

PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
The present composition is based on an oil painting by Simon-Bernard Lenoir, a work that was exhibited at the Salon in 1784 and is now in the collection of Comédie Française.1
There are two enamel portraits of the sitter by Weyler in Louvre, Paris, one signed and dated 1782.
1. H. Williams, Turquerie, An Eighteenth-Century European Fantasy, London 2014, p. 80, fig. 96