The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III
The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III
Auction Closed
December 5, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
Lot Details
Description
J. FRANCOIS LEBELLE
1769 - 1869
A VIEW OF THE TUILERIES PALACE, PARIS, CIRCA 1815
Fixé-sous-verre, gilt-metal mount
49 by 79 mm.
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 18 July 1988, lot 84
Jean-François Sebelle, called Lebelle, was an artist active in the first third of the 19th century who specialised in the technique of fixé sous verre (peinture éludorique), first used in France in the mid 18th century.
An almost identical view of the Tuileries Gardens, signed ‘Sebelle’, was formerly in the collection of David David-Weill.1
1. Gillet, Jeannerat & Clouzot 1957, no. 428