Lot 300: LOUIS-FRANÇOIS AUBERT (FRENCH, D. 1755)

LOUIS-FRANÇOIS AUBERT (FRENCH, D. 1755)
Louis XV (1710-1774), King of France 1715-1774, in gilt-bordered armour, wearing a blue cloak decorated with gold fleur-de-lys, a Field Marshal's baton in his right hand; landscape background
signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'LF. aubert. f. 1752'
enamel on gold
oval, 2 in. (50 mm.) wide, gilt-metal frame with stamped border

S. Humair, 'Miniatures des rois et rois des miniatures', Le Figaro, 27-28 February 1982, illustrated p. 18.
A. Somers Cocks and C. Truman, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Renaissance jewels, gold boxes and objets de vertu, London, 1984, p. 31, fig. 16.
S. Coffin and B. Hofstetter, The Gilbert Collection. Portrait Miniatures in Enamel, London, 2000, pp. 17 and 28, footnote 9.

Christie's, London, 15 December 1964, lot 240 (370 gns to Ellison). Christie's, London, 23 June 1981, lot 130.
with Edwin Bucher, Trogen, in 1984.
Galerie Koller, Zurich, 12-18 November 1987, lot 1752.