Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
HENRI FRANÇOIS GABRIEL VIOLLIER (RUSSO-SWISS, 1750-1829)
Lot 217 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

HENRI FRANÇOIS GABRIEL VIOLLIER (RUSSO-SWISS, 1750-1829)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 1,000

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HENRI FRANÇOIS GABRIEL VIOLLIER (RUSSO-SWISS, 1750-1829)
An officer, in white coat with brass buttons and blue collar, white frilled cravat and black stock, powdered hair
signed and dated 'Viollier · 1774.' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 1 5/16 in. (33 mm.) high, circular gold frame with plaited hair panel, the reverse centred with gold monogram SDE

Specialist note

Viollier worked in St Petersburg from 1780 where he became court painter. He was put in charge of the decoration of the Pavlosk Palace by Tsar Paul I. He also painted high-ranking members of the court in St Petersburg including Potemkin, an example of which is now in the Moscow Kremlin Collection of Miniatures.