Lot 318: AIMEE-ZOE LIZINKA DE MIRBEL, NEE RUE (FRENCH, 1796-1849)

AIMEE-ZOE LIZINKA DE MIRBEL, NEE RUE (FRENCH, 1796-1849)
Louis XVIII (1755-1824), King of France 1814/1815 - 1824, in blue coat with gold epaulettes, wearing orders including the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal French Order of the Saint Esprit, the breast-star of the Order of Notre-Dame du Mont Carmel, the Orders of the Legion of Honour and Saint Louis
signed 'Mυlυlυe Lizinka Rue 1818' (mid-left)
on ivory
oval, 3 9/16 in. (91 mm.) high, rectangular ormolu frame with foliate surround

Moniteur Universel, 28 August 1818.
A. Jal, Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire, Paris, 1867, p. 866.
H. Bouchot, 'Le portrait miniature en France (quatrième article)', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1895, 3rd period, XIII, p. 238.
R. Jean, 'Madame de Mirbel', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1906, 3rd period, XXXV, p. 134.
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L. de Mauri, L'Amatore di Miniature su Avorio, Milan, 1918, p. 357. E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire [...], Paris, 1976, p. 434.
G. Reynolds, Wallace Collection. Catalogue of Miniatures, London, 1980, p. 252.
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 385.
S. Duffy and C. M. Vogtherr, Miniatures in the Wallace Collection, London, 2010, p. 147.

Sotheby's, London, 29 March 1976, lot 117.