Lot 102: TWO PORTRAIT MINIATURES: ONE BY VINCENT BERTRAND (FRENCH, 1770 - AFTER 1818)

TWO PORTRAIT MINIATURES: ONE BY VINCENT BERTRAND (FRENCH, 1770 - AFTER 1818)
A gentleman called Louis-Henry-Joseph Condé, Duc de Bourbon (1756-1830), in blue coat, striped waistcoat and white cravat; together with a gentleman, in moss-green coat, striped waistcoat and tied cravat, gloved hand holding a letter, Continental School, circa 1790
on ivory
the former, octagonal, 2¼ in. (58 mm.) high, the latter, oval, 2 3/8 in. (58 mm.) high, gilt-metal frames (2)

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889, case XXXIX, no. 18, cat. p. 125 (lent by Lord Hastings).

The Bertrand: The Lord Hastings Collection; Sotheby's, London, 25 December 1958, lot 22 (110 gns. to S. J. Phillips, as by Pierre Hall and set in the lid of a circular gold-mounted blonde tortoiseshell box).
Edward Grosvenor Paine (1911-1989) Collection, New Orleans, La., inv. no. 591; Christie's, London, 12 October 1982, lot 23.

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