Live Auction 7850Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
HENRI-JOSEPH VAN BLARENBERGHE (FRENCH, 1741-1826)
Lot 121

HENRI-JOSEPH VAN BLARENBERGHE (FRENCH, 1741-1826)

Closed10 June 2010

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GBP 5,000

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HENRI-JOSEPH VAN BLARENBERGHE (FRENCH, 1741-1826)
Four plaques made for a snuff-box depicting theatrical scenes: a young lady with her gallant seated for her portrait in an artist's studio; a gentleman in Turkish costume inviting a lady dressed à la Circassienne; the wife of a sleeping drunken blacksmith in a forge complaining to two gentlemen; a milkmaid in a forest with a hunter offering assistance
on card
rectangular, 1 1/16 x 1¼ in. (27 x 32 mm.) to 1 5/16 x 1 3/8 in. (34 x 35 mm.), gilt-metal mounts within larger gilt-wood frame

Christie's, London, 6 November 2001, lot 46.
Christie's, London, 28 May 2002, lot 27.

Specialist note

For further information about the van Blarenberghes, see M. Maillet-Chassagne, Une dynastie de peintres lillois, les Van Blarenberghe, Paris, 2001.
These scenes re-appear on a gold snuff-box by Jean-Baptiste Godart of 1773/74, illustrated and described in S. Grandjean et al., The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor. Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century, London Fribourg, 1975, no. 93, pp. 200-202.