Lot n° 223
Estimation :
1200 - 2000
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 1 200EUR
Jean Urbain Guerin (1725-1836)
Oval miniature on ivory representing a man dressed in a blue frock coat and white tie, facing left on a grey background, signed "Guerin F", in a double-sided yellow gold oval frame.
Early 19th century. (Micro cracks in the glass protecting the miniature).
Miniature : Height : 75 mm - Width : 64 mm
Frame : Height : 90 mm - Width : 80 mm
Gross weight : 86,5 g
Jean Urbain Guérin (1761-1836) : son of Guérin, engraver at the Strasbourg mint, he was Huin's pupil. Sent to Paris, he frequented the circle of the Alsatian artists of Paris, he met there Jean Baptiste Weyler who would have encouraged him to become a miniaturist. Guérin indicates that he realized, in 1791, the portrait of Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire, friend of the queen Marie-Antoinette. He also painted portraits of the queen and Louis XVI. Jean-Urbain Guérin, then a member of the National Guard, in front of the Tuileries protected the royal family against the sans-culottes during the day of June 20, 1792. Then he left France, joined the army of and did not return until 1798. During his career, he made many portraits of soldiers. Back in France under the Consulate (1798), he painted a portrait of the Emperor and Queen Hortense. He exhibited at the Salon until 1827.
Bibliography:
Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniatures actifs en France 1650-1850, Éditions de l'Amateur.
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