Lot 67: ANGÉLIQUE BOUILLET, NÉE LAMBERT (FRENCH, C. 1810-1866)

Thomas Corneille, in black coat, white collar and black skull cap
signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'Thomas Corneille. A Bouillet née Lambert fecit Paris. 1849'
enamel on copper
oval, 2 in. (50 mm.) high

L. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, III, illustrated pl. 87, fig. 152.

Thomas Corneille (1625-1709), French playwright who wrote Bertrand de Cigaral (1650), Timocrate (1656), Ariane (1672), Circé (1675), Bellerophon (1679). He was the younger brother of Pierre Corneille (1604-1684).

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