Live Auction 7850Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
JACQUES-ANTOINE-MARIE LEMOINE (FRENCH, 1751-1824)
Lot 166 A

JACQUES-ANTOINE-MARIE LEMOINE (FRENCH, 1751-1824)

Closed10 June 2010

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GBP 8,750

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JACQUES-ANTOINE-MARIE LEMOINE (FRENCH, 1751-1824)
A young cavalry officer in red-piped blue uniform with silver epaulettes, seated at a table with open treatise on horses next to his plumed tricorn hat
signed and dated 'LEMOINE 1791' (upper right)
on ivory
3 in. (76 mm.) diam., gold mount

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, room 2, 12 February 1993, lot 32 (then on a blonde tortoiseshell box).

Specialist note

The sitter wears the uniform of a cavalry officer of the regiment of Queen Marie-Antoinette. The 1993 sale catalogue pointed out that the cockade is still white, and not tricolore.