Premier Auction - Session II - March 25, 2023
Sat, Mar 25, 2023 09:00AM EDT
Lot 982
Portrait Miniature, Charles Balthasar Julien Fevret de 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 |
(New York/French, 1770-1852)
Miss Van Lear, Baltimore, 1803-1806, signed lower left "St. Memin/ft", watercolor on paper, 5-7/8 x 4-1/4 in. visible
This sitter may be one of the daughters of Matthew Van Lear of Tammany, near Williamsport, Maryland
Recorded: Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Memin and the Neo-Classical Profile Portrait in America (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994), p. 418, no. 897
Illustrated: Elle Shushan, Fine Portrait Miniatures, Catalogue II (Philadelphia: Augustus Decorative Arts, 2003), p. 16
Condition
not examined out of frame, fading, toning, tears into image on right, through chest, restorations, possibly laid down
Believed to have come from the Van Lear family of Williamsport, Maryland; William T. Hassett, Jr.; sold by Christie's East, New York, 22 January 1992; Private Collection, Middleburg, Virginia
