Thursday 4 June 2020
Louis-Marie Sicardi, French 1743-1825- Portrait miniature of a high-ranking...
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Louis-Marie Sicardi,
French 1743-1825-
Portrait miniature of a high-ranking Napoleonic officer, thought to be Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, (1784-1860), quarter-length turned to the left, wearing dark blue uniform of a French Consul, with scarlet collar, brocade decoration, gold epaulettes and pale blue watered silk sword belt against a sky blue background, in a glazed octagonal shaped gold and black enamel Empire frame with glazed reverse enclosing a memorial scene of applied hair, depicting a helmet, spear and shield with the initial J leaning against the trunk of a tree, and a hilltop mausoleum in the distance, signed and dated (18)10, 7x5.5cm
Note: a painting by Robert Lefevre of Napoleon Bonaparte shows him wearing a very similar tunic
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