Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE SOMPSOIS (FRENCH, FL. 1755 - 1797) AFTER VIRGILIUS ERICHSEN (DANISH, 1722-1782)
Lot 203 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE SOMPSOIS (FRENCH, FL. 1755 - 1797) AFTER VIRGILIUS ERICHSEN (DANISH, 1722-1782)

Closed28 November 2012

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ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE SOMPSOIS (FRENCH, FL. 1755 - 1797) AFTER VIRGILIUS ERICHSEN (DANISH, 1722-1782)
Grand Duke Paul Petrovich (1754-1801), in claret red coat and waistcoat, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew and the jewel of the Order of St Anna
on parchment laid down on card
oval, 1 7/8 in. (48 mm.) high, later parcel-gilt silver frame

Sotheby's, London, 31 January 1977, lot 42.

Specialist note

The present miniature derives from a rectangular oil on canvas portrait by Virgilius Erichsen of 1764, now in The David Collection, Copenhagen, inv. no. 21 1962. For further information about the French artist working for the court in St Petersburg, Jean-François Sompsois, see N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, online edition, 10 July 2012, verbo Sompsois, p. 1.