Lot 24: JEAN-FRANÇOIS SOIRON (SWISS, 1756-1812)

JEAN-FRANÇOIS SOIRON (SWISS, 1756-1812)
A boy, in open white shirt, purple cloak, reading a book
signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'F Soiron pinxit .1799.'
enamel on copper
2¾ in. (69 mm.) diam., gold bezel

London, Garrard's, An exhibition of important 18th & early 19th century miniatures and enamels at Garrard, 1961, no. 356.
Lausanne, Musée historique de Lausanne, 100 ans de miniatures suisses 1780-1880, 1999-2000, no. 6.

H. Clouzot, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes sur émail, Paris, 1924, p. 186.
H. Clouzot, La miniature sur émail en France, Paris, n.d. [c. 1928], p. 163.
L. Gillet/C. Jeannerat/H. Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, p. 494, no. 356, illustrated p. 495.

David David-Weill (1871-1952) Collection, Neuilly-sur-Seine, no. 4154.
Sold by Wildenstein, Paris, to Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London.
The Clore Collection of Portrait Miniatures, part II, sold Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1986, lot 171.

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This is after the rectangular oil on canvas painting by Bénigne Gagnereaux (1756-1795), signed and dated 1786, sold Galerie Koller, Zurich, 9 September 1999, lot 111.