Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 293. Portrait of Charles-Jérôme Martin de L'Agenois (1757-1794).

Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)

Jean Baptiste Weyler

Portrait of Charles-Jérôme Martin de L'Agenois (1757-1794)

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December 9, 05:06 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

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Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)

Jean Baptiste Weyler

Strasburg 1747 - 1791 Paris

Portrait of Charles-Jérôme Martin de L'Agenois (1757-1794)


watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold frame, card reverse;

signed and dated lower right: Weyler. 1789, inscribed with the sitter's biographical details verso

6.2 cm. Diam., 2½ in. Diam.

With Seligmann, Paris;
Sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit 'Liquidation Société Seligmann', 9-12 March 1914, lot 232;
Emil Glückstadt (1870-1923), Copenhagen;
Greta Shield Heckett (1899-1976), Pittsburgh;
Her executor's sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 4 May 1977, lot 75;
Sale, Zurich, Sotheby's, 24 November 1978, lot 222
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris 2008, p. 539
The sitter was a Parisan who worked as a lawyer in that city. On the 4 May 1794, towards the end of the revolutionary period known as the 'terror', he was executed by guillotine.