Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
LOUISE BARBAULT DE LA BROUE DE SAINT-AVIT, NEE PERON (FRENCH, FL. C. 1789-1825) AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA LAMPI (ITALIAN, 1751-1830)
Lot 201 AFTERNOON SESSION: PORTRAIT MINIATURES LOTS 201 - 444

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LOUISE BARBAULT DE LA BROUE DE SAINT-AVIT, NEE PERON (FRENCH, FL. C. 1789-1825) AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA LAMPI (ITALIAN, 1751-1830)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 10,000

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LOUISE BARBAULT DE LA BROUE DE SAINT-AVIT, NEE PERON (FRENCH, FL. C. 1789-1825) AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA LAMPI (ITALIAN, 1751-1830)
Catherine II (1729-1796), Empress of Russia 1762-1796, known as Catherine the Great, in ermine-bordered robes over blue dress, jewelled chain and tiara, wearing the blue moiré sash of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew, the red sash of St Catherine and the Military order of St George, green curtain background
signed 'Lise P - La Broue' (mid-left)
on ivory (artist's join)
oval, 3¾ in. (95 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

Christie's, Geneva, 19 November 1991, lot 250.

Specialist note

The present miniature derives from a large-scale portrait by Giovanni Battista Lampi, painted in 1794. Another variant in miniature, by Alois Gustav Rockstuhl, signed and dated 1865, is inscribed on the reverse denoting that the original by Lampi, now in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, was once in the possession of Prince Gorchakov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, St Petersburg.