Lot 86: LOUIS-MARIE SICARDI (FRENCH, 1746-1825)

LOUIS-MARIE SICARDI (FRENCH, 1746-1825)
A young gentleman, in black coat, frilled white cravat and stock, powdered bag wig en queue
signed and dated 'Sicardi 1789' (lower left)
on ivory
2 1/8 in. (54 mm.) diam., set on the cover of a gold-mounted tortoiseshell-lined ivory bonbonnière

Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 401.
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 334 (lent by Major de la Hey, London).

De la Hey Collection; part I, Sotheby's, London, 27 May 1968, lot 36.

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