
Lot Closed
May 7, 04:06 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
CHARLES HÉNARD
Bourg-en-Bresse circa 1757 - after 1808
PORTRAIT OF LOUIS-CHARLES D'ORLÉANS, COUNT OF BEAUJOLAIS (1779-1808), DRESSED AS A WINEMAKER, CIRCA 1790
Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, chased gold mount with blue enamel border, set in the lid of a rectangular tortoiseshell box, Pierre André Montauban, 1798-1809;
the lid interior engraved: Portrait / de Monseigneur / le Comte de Beaujolais, / dans sans enfance.
The box: 7.5 by 5.5 cm., 2 ¾ by 3 in.; The miniature: 5.1 by 3.3 cm., 2⅛ by 1⅜ in.
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Sale, London, Christie's, 15 June 1982, lot 67;
with Edwin Bucher, Trogen, by 1982
M. Friesen, Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880, Darmstadt, 2001, p. 417, fig. 237
The sitter was the son of Philippe Egalité and younger brother Louis-Philippe, King of the French.