MONMERQUE Jean - Baptiste - Charles. Paris 1759 - id.; 1808. Seated bust portrait of a young woman in a white dress with a blue floral motif, golden earrings, a white ribbon tied in her curly hair. Round miniature. Gilded and chased metal border. Signed on the right and dated 1796. Diameter: 6.5 cm. Square-shaped frame in natural stained wood (minor accidents); cardboard reverse counter-glued, fixed and closed (12 x 12 cm). On Jean - Baptiste - Charles Monmerqué, miniature and pastel painter, active in Paris and Nantes, mainly between 1785 and 1800, please refer to the biographical note by Neil Jeffares in his Dictionary of pastellits before 1800 (Online edition) and to Nathalie Lemoine - Bouchard, Les peintres en miniature, 1650 - 1850, p. 388 - (Paris 2008).
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MONMERQUE Jean - Baptiste - Charles. Paris 1759 - id.; 1808. Seated bust portrait of a young woman in a white dress with a blue floral motif, golden earrings, a white ribbon tied in her curly hair. Round miniature. Gilded and chased metal border. Signed on the right and dated 1796. Diameter: 6.5 cm. Square-shaped frame in natural stained wood (minor accidents); cardboard reverse counter-glued, fixed and closed (12 x 12 cm). On Jean - Baptiste - Charles Monmerqué, miniature and pastel painter, active in Paris and Nantes, mainly between 1785 and 1800, please refer to the biographical note by Neil Jeffares in his Dictionary of pastellits before 1800 (Online edition) and to Nathalie Lemoine - Bouchard, Les peintres en miniature, 1650 - 1850, p. 388 - (Paris 2008).