PIERRE DAUBIGNY (FRENCH, 1793-1858)
Lot 97

PIERRE DAUBIGNY (FRENCH, 1793-1858)

Closed17 November 2009

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PIERRE DAUBIGNY (FRENCH, 1793-1858)
Vice Admiral Baron l'Hermitte (1766-1826), in military uniform, blue coat with gold-embroidered collar, gold epaulettes and buttons, white stock, wearing the French Military Order of St Louis and the Royal French Order of the Legion of Honour; cloudy sky background (artist's join)
signed 'D'aubigny' (mid-left)
on ivory
oval, 4 1/8 in. (105 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount with foliate stamped border in rectangular wood frame
A paper label on the reverse is inscribed with the sitter's name.

Courtois Collection, inventory no. 86.

Specialist note

A similar pastel portrait of the present sitter, and a further one of his wife, are in the Musée Quesnel-Morinière, Coutances, France. They are reproduced in N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 276.