Lot 97: PIERRE DAUBIGNY (FRENCH, 1793-1858)

PIERRE DAUBIGNY (FRENCH, 1793-1858)
Vice Admiral Baron l'Hermitte (1766-1826), in military uniform, blue coat with gold-embroidered collar, gold epaulettes and buttons, white stock, wearing the French Military Order of St Louis and the Royal French Order of the Legion of Honour; cloudy sky background (artist's join)
signed 'D'aubigny' (mid-left)
on ivory
oval, 4 1/8 in. (105 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount with foliate stamped border in rectangular wood frame
A paper label on the reverse is inscribed with the sitter's name.

Montélimar, Musée de la Miniature, De la guerre en dentelles aux charges héroïques, 2006, no. 63, illustrated in colour p. 42.

N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 179.

Courtois Collection, inventory no. 86.

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A similar pastel portrait of the present sitter, and a further one of his wife, are in the Musée Quesnel-Morinière, Coutances, France. They are reproduced in N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 276.