Lot 147
  • 147

JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY | Portrait of Jean-Andoche Junot, later 1st Duc de Abrantès (1771–1813), circa 1805

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Isabey, Jean-Baptiste
  • Portrait of Jean-Andoche Junot, later 1st Duc de Abrantès (1771–1813), circa 1805
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame;signed lower left: Isabey
  • 55 by 40 mm.

Provenance

Bernard Franck (d. 1924), Paris, by 1906;
sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 22-23 February 1935, lot 128;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 26 June 1978, lot 13;
Horst Fasold;
sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 6 May 1981, lot 70

Exhibited

Paris, 1900;
Paris, 1904, no. 228;
Paris, 1906, no. 296;
Brussels1912, no. 879

Literature

Basily-Callimaki, 1909, p. 123, illust.;
De Mauri, 1918, p. 309, illust.;
Schidlof, 1964, vol. I, p. 407;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 412, no. 186;
Du Pasquier, 2010, pp. 126-127, illust.

Condition

Corners of ivory are rounded, presumably to accommodate the original frame. Lively paint surface and good colour.
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