Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH-JUSTE SIEURAC (FRENCH, 1781 - C. 1832)
Lot 332

FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH-JUSTE SIEURAC (FRENCH, 1781 - C. 1832)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 3,500

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FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH-JUSTE SIEURAC (FRENCH, 1781 - C. 1832)
Maria Letizia Bonaparte, née Ramolino (1750-1836), 'Madame Mère', in gold-embroidered red dress, white turban adorned with ostrich feathers, pearl necklace and drop-pearl earrings; green curtain background
signed and dated 'Sieurac 1813' (upper right)
on ivory
oval, 2½ in. (65 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, green silk reverse

Christie's, Geneva, 9 May 1989, lot 235.
Robert D. Brewster (1916-1995) Collection, New York; Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 November 1995, lot 303.

Specialist note

A variant of the present miniature, mounted in the interior of an écritoire by Odiot used to be the property of Jérôme Bonaparte and is now in the Museum of the Legion d'Honneur, Paris (inv. no. 03038), illustrated in N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 469, fig. a.