Lot 23: HENRI L'ÉVÊQUE (SWISS, 1769-1832)

HENRI L'ÉVÊQUE (SWISS, 1769-1832)
Madame Ponçon, in printed grey dress with white lace trim, white muslin fichu, black shawl, gold necklace, brown ribbon in her loose curling brown hair, holding a letter in her right hand and an envelope addressed to 'Mad. Ponçon à Genève' and inscribed 'je l'aime'
signed and dated 'L'Evêque l'aine. 1799' (lower right)
enamel on copper
oval, 2 3/8 in. (61 mm.) high, gold bezel

London, Garrard's, An exhibition of important 18th & early 19th century miniatures and enamels at Garrard, 1961, no. 316.
Lausanne, Musée historique de Lausanne, 100 ans de miniatures suisses 1780-1880, 1999-2000, no. 44.

Exhibition catalogue Donation de D. David-Weill au musée du Louvre. Miniatures et émaux, Paris, Louvre, 1956, p. 125, no. 263.
L. Gillet/C. Jeannerat/H. Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, p. 450, no. 316, illustrated p. 451.

Paul F. Regard Collection, Geneva.
David David-Weill (1871-1952) Collection, Neuilly-sur-Seine, no. 4153.
Sold by Wildenstein, Paris, to Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London.
The Clore Collection of Portrait Miniatures, part II, sold Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1986, lot 130.
Sotheby's, London, 8 June 1995, lot 199.

ENAMEL MINIATURES
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The pair to this enamel, depicting Monsieur Ponçon, was also in the D. David-Weill collection and is now in the Louvre (INV. RF 30907).