TWO MINIATURES BY JACQUES-FRANÇOIS JOSEPH SWEBACH-DESFONTAINES, CIRCA 1815

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January 21, 06:17 PM GMT

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LORD AND LADY FAIRHAVEN

TWO MINIATURES BY JACQUES-FRANÇOIS JOSEPH SWEBACH-DESFONTAINES, CIRCA 1815

both circular, painted en grisaille, one with two riders before a stable, on a prepared blue ground, gilt-metal frame; the other, signed with initials SW, depicting travellers, painted on buff-coloured paper, circular, set in a gilt-metal mounted tortoiseshell-lined burrwood snuff box; and a fixé sous verre miniature depicting Napoleon landing at Fréjus on 9 August 1799, after a painting by François Grénier de Saint-Martin, French School, 19^th century, gilt-metal mount

9.3cm., 3¾in. wide; 9cm., 3½in. wide; 9.4cm., 3¾in. wide

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Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines (1769–1823), first established his reputation as a painter of battle scenes - in particular the victories of Napoleon Bonaparte - and later as a draughtsman of genre subjects, as seen here. From 1802 until 1813 he was first painter at the Sevrès Porcelain Manufactory, where he was responsible for the service encyclopédique, created in 1806 for the marriage of Stéphanie de Beauharnais and Karl Ludwig, Grand Duke of Baden. Later, between 1815 and 1817 he worked at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in St Petersburg.