Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
JEAN-LAURENT MOSNIER (FRENCH, 1743/44 - 1808)
Lot 444

JEAN-LAURENT MOSNIER (FRENCH, 1743/44 - 1808)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 13,750

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JEAN-LAURENT MOSNIER (FRENCH, 1743/44 - 1808)
Duchesse de Châtillon, seated on a red upholstered chair, in silk white dress with blue sash and ribbons, gauze cap over her partly upswept powdered hair dressed in rolls, her right hand resting and holding open a book set on a table covered with red cloth, glass vase with flowers
signed and dated 'mosnier 1785' (mid-right)
on ivory
3 1/16 in. (78 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount with stamped surround

Duchesse d'Uzès (1847-1933), Paris, in 1912.

Specialist note

The sitter is probably Amable Emilie de Châtillon-Porcéan, duchesse de Châtillon (1761-1840) who was married in 1777 to Marie-François de Crussol, duc d'Uzès (1756-1843). They had two children: Adrien François Emmanuel de Crussol d'Uzès, duc de Crussol 1778-1837 and Alexandre Célestine Zoé Emmanuelle Thimarette de Crussol d'Uzès (1785-1866).
Another miniature by Mosnier, signed and dated 1784, of the Duchesse de Châtillon, in a very similar pose to the present portrait holding a quill in her right hand as she writes a letter, is in the Louvre (see P. Jean-Richard, op. cit., p. 265, no. 474, illustrated opposite and enlarged detail p. 14).