JEAN-FRANÇOIS-MARIE VILLIERS-HUET (ANGLO-FRENCH, 1772-1813) AFTER ELISABETH LOUISE VIGÉE-LE BRUN (FRENCH, 1755-1842)
$500
JEAN-FRANÇOIS-MARIE VILLIERS-HUET (ANGLO-FRENCH, 1772-1813) AFTER ELISABETH LOUISE VIGÉE-LE BRUN (FRENCH, 1755-1842)
Viscount Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734-1802), in black coat and white lace cravat, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal French Order of the Saint Esprit; red curtain interior background
signed and inscribed 'Villiers Huet. D'après Md Le Brun..1804' (mid-right)
on ivory
3 in. (77 mm.) diam., set in the cover of a gilt-metal mounted blonde tortoisesehell bonbonnière, in base of outer card case, the interior inscribed in ink with biographical details of sitter
