Marie-Nicholas Ponce-Camus

Portrait of Sigismond Wolfgang Aloyse Moreau (1746-1825), 1798/9

Restricted Species

Lot Closed

April 28, 04:09 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important British Private Collection

Marie-Nicholas Ponce-Camus

Paris 1778 - 1839

Portrait of Sigismond Wolfgang Aloyse Moreau (1746-1825), 1798/9

Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold frame;

signed and dated lower left: Ponce Camus an. 7em

77 mm. Diam.

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Sale, London, Christie's, 21 June 1999, lot 169;
sale, London, Christie's, 27 November 2012, lot 424

N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 427

The sitter was born in Delémont, Switzerland, the son of Germain and Marie-Anne Moreau. Early in his life he worked as a lawyer at the court of the Prince-Bishop of Basel. Later he became a member of the conseil des anciens, before being promoted to president du tribunal criminel of the newly created French department of Mont-Terrible. He was a member of the French Parliament from 1799 to 1814 and was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1811.