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Lot 444: JEAN-LAURENT MOSNIER (FRENCH, 1743/44 - 1808)

Est: £10,000 GBP - £15,000 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 27, 2012

Item Overview

Description

JEAN-LAURENT MOSNIER (FRENCH, 1743/44 - 1808)
Duchesse de Châtillon, seated on a red upholstered chair, in silk white dress with blue sash and ribbons, gauze cap over her partly upswept powdered hair dressed in rolls, her right hand resting and holding open a book set on a table covered with red cloth, glass vase with flowers
signed and dated 'mosnier 1785' (mid-right)
on ivory
3 1/16 in. (78 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount with stamped surround

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Brussels, Hôtel du Baron Goffinet, Exposition de la miniature, 1912, no. 623 (part, lent by Madame la Duchesse d'Uzès, Paris).

Literature

P.-A. Lemoisne, 'Les Miniaturistes français à l'exposition de Bruxelles', Les Arts, no. 129, 1912, September, pp. 14-15.
P.-A. Lemoisne, 'Le portrait-miniature en France de la Régence au règne de Louis-Philippe', in L'Exposition de la Miniature à Bruxelles en 1912, Brussels and Paris, 1913, p. 66 (as très intéressant portrait), illustrated pl. XXVIII, no. 127.
L. Demonts and Ch. Terrasse, Musée du Louvre. Catalogue de la donation Félix Doistau. Miniatures des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, Paris, 1922, p. 63.
P. Jean-Richard, Miniatures sur ivoire. Musée du Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, p. 265.

Provenance

Duchesse d'Uzès (1847-1933), Paris, in 1912.

Notes

END OF AFTERNOON SESSION

Auction Details

Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes

by
Christie's
November 27, 2012, 10:30 AM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK