Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
LOUIS-FRANÇOIS AUBERT (FRENCH, D. 1755)
Lot 300

LOUIS-FRANÇOIS AUBERT (FRENCH, D. 1755)

Closed28 November 2012

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LOUIS-FRANÇOIS AUBERT (FRENCH, D. 1755)
Louis XV (1710-1774), King of France 1715-1774, in gilt-bordered armour, wearing a blue cloak decorated with gold fleur-de-lys, a Field Marshal's baton in his right hand; landscape background
signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'LF. aubert. f. 1752'
enamel on gold
oval, 2 in. (50 mm.) wide, gilt-metal frame with stamped border

Christie's, London, 15 December 1964, lot 240 (370 gns to Ellison). Christie's, London, 23 June 1981, lot 130.
with Edwin Bucher, Trogen, in 1984.
Galerie Koller, Zurich, 12-18 November 1987, lot 1752.

Specialist note

Anna Somers Cocks and Charles Truman (supra) describe the present miniature as follows: 'Aubert's enamel appears to have been popular and distinctive, for so far as is known only one example of his work is signed (fig. 16), and yet enamels are frequently ascribed to his hand in eighteenth-century documents.' A further oval landscape-shaped enamel portrait of Louis XV by Aubert, signed and dated 1752, was sold Christie's, Geneva, 16 May 1995, lot 198.