Lot Essay
The sitter married, in 1800 in Lisbon, Antoine Charles Marie Anne, Marquis de Tardieu de Maleissye, Marquis de Maleissye (1764-1851). He was a General and a Field Marshall.
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Details
Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (French, 1759-1832)
Thérèse Jeanne Marie Hortense de Tardieu, Marquise de Maleyssie, née de Luc (d. 1826), in white dress and red shawl
Signed and dated ‘Augustin. / 1814’ (lower left) and inscribed on the backing card ‘Madame de Maleyssie’
On ivory
78 mm diam., square gilt-bronze frame
Thérèse Jeanne Marie Hortense de Tardieu, Marquise de Maleyssie, née de Luc (d. 1826), in white dress and red shawl
Signed and dated ‘Augustin. / 1814’ (lower left) and inscribed on the backing card ‘Madame de Maleyssie’
On ivory
78 mm diam., square gilt-bronze frame
Provenance
Maxime Hébert (1853-1945) Collection, Paris.
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 15 May 1954 (inv. nos. MD/0591 and 36).
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 15 May 1954 (inv. nos. MD/0591 and 36).
Literature
de Langle / Schlumberger 1957, p. 106.
Pappe 2015, p. 328, no. 877, illustrated.
Pappe 2015, p. 328, no. 877, illustrated.
Exhibited
Geneva 1956, no. 16.
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