The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III
The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III
SALOMON-GUILLAUME COUNIS | PORTRAIT OF AN OFFICER, CIRCA 1825
Auction Closed
December 5, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
SALOMON-GUILLAUME COUNIS
Geneva 1785 - 1859 Florence
PORTRAIT OF AN OFFICER, CIRCA 1825
Enamel on copper, gold frame, mother-of-pearl reverse;
signed lower right: Counis
35 by 27 mm.
Emilie Artus, Paris, by 1923;
his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 14 June 1950, lot 230;
sale, Geneva, Christie's, 21 November 1979, lot 340
Clouzot, 1924, p. 57;
Clouzot, 1928, p. 167;
Naef, 1935, p. 100, no. 25, illust.;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 403, illust.
The sitter is wearing the Order of Saint-Louis and the Legion d'Honneur.