Lot n° 220
Estimation :
400 - 600
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Johann Julius Heinsius (1740-1812)
Oval miniature on ivory representing a young woman in bust wearing a white dress and blue belt, her hair girded with pearls, signed Heinsius in the lower right corner, in an oval gilt metal frame. It bears on the back the inscription "26 July Ste Anne, this miniature belongs to my dear Jeanne. C.G"
Late 18th-early 19th century.
(Crack from top to bottom).
Miniature: Height: 70 mm - Width: 62 mm
Frame: Height: 82 mm - Width: 70 mm
Johann Ernst Julius Heinsius (1740-1812): painter and miniature painter, born in Weimar, he moved to France in the late 1770s. He became known as a portraitist in Paris and Versailles. He became the first painter of Mesdames de France, daughters of Louis XV. During the revolutionary period he would have taken refuge in Gien and then in Orleans. He is mentioned in the historical calendar of Orléans in 1793 as a miniature painter, rue Bannier. He died in Orléans in 1812
Bibliography:
Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniatures actifs en France 1650-1850, Éditions de l'Amateur.
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