The Spring Offering of Fine & Decorative Arts
Sat, May 17, 2014 10:00AM EDT - Sun, May 18, 2014 10:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 235
Charles Balthezar Saint Memin
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
(French, 1770-1852)
Important and rare portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), (M.446),
signed "St. Mn. ft..?, first state, engraving on paper, 2-3/4 x 2-3/4 in. (plate); unframed, foxing, sewn to loose page from journal. Notes: Jefferson paid for a total of 48 impressions which he gave to family members and many friends including the Marquis de Lafayette. It is likely that this miniature may have been received from his hand, given the family's political prominence.
Literature: Ellen Miles, [Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America], Smithsonian Institution, 1994. Provenance: Formerly from a journal or book dated 1802 and owned by Mrs. Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson (1770-1848), wife of Chief Justice Joseph Hopper Nicholson, and the second daughter of Col. Edward Lloyd, President of the Executive Council, under the colonial government of Maryland; by descent in the Lloyd and Shippen Family
foxing, sewn to loose page from journal
