Lot 158: ANTOINE-CLAUDE FLEURY (FRENCH, FL. C. 1790-1822)

ANTOINE-CLAUDE FLEURY (FRENCH, FL. C. 1790-1822)
General Baron Thouvenot (1757-1817), standing by a cannon and pointing towards the distance with his right hand, his left hand resting on his sword, in gold-embroidered blue uniform with gold epaulettes and white silk waistcoat with gilt-copper belt
signed and dated 'Fleury 1793' (lower right)
on ivory
2 13/16 in. (71 mm.) diam., octagonal gilt-metal frame

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Deux siècles de gloire militaire 1610-1814, 1935, no. 657.

N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 238.

André Lévi Collection, in 1935.
Christie's, Geneva, 16 May 1995, lot 136.
with D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., London, in 1995.

PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
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ANTOINE-CLAUDE FLEURY (FRENCH, FL. C. 1790-1822)
General Baron Thouvenot (1757-1817), standing by a cannon and pointing towards the distance with his right hand, his left hand resting on his sword, in gold-embroidered blue uniform with gold epaulettes and white silk waistcoat with gilt-copper belt
signed and dated 'Fleury 1793' (lower right)
on ivory
2 13/16 in. (71 mm.) diam., octagonal gilt-metal frame