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JEAN-BAPTISTE COUVELET (FRENCH, 1772-1830)
Lot 467

JEAN-BAPTISTE COUVELET (FRENCH, 1772-1830)

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 3,000

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JEAN-BAPTISTE COUVELET (FRENCH, 1772-1830)
Adolf Bernhard Scheibler (1768-1833), in black double-breasted coat, white knotted cravat, high stand collar, curling hair and long sideburns
Signed and dated ‘JBte Couvelet 1816.’ (mid-right)
On ivory


Oval, 72 mm. high, gilt-metal mount in rectangular wood frame
Inscribed on the reverse 'Adolf Bernhard Scheibler / geb. 1.9.1768 in Montjoie / gest. 19.12.1833. Eupen / heiratete 17.7.1793 in Montjoie / Doroth. Kathar. Kuetemeyer / geb. 15.11.1776. / gest. 26.7.1824. / (Eltern von Maria Catinka / Berta Virginie Mayer-Scheibler, / der Mutter von / Julius Mayer-Fremerey.'

Specialist note

For a recent account of the artist Couvelet, see B. Chaignet Sortais, 'Jean-Baptiste Couvelet, Jean-Baptiste Ponce Lambert, Angélique Bouillet. OEuvres en miniature' in La miniature en Europe. Des portraits de propagande aux oeuvres élephantesques, Paris, 2013, pp. 63-69.