Jean Bonvoisin (French, 1752-1837)


A portrait miniature of a gentleman wearing coat, waistcoat, frilled chemise and tied stock. Pencil and watercolour on card, signed on the obverse and dated, Bonvoisin 1823, gilt-mounted on a rectangular ebonised and turned wood frame, accompanied by eighteen miniatures painted on ivory, (mostly French School, early 19th century), some signed and dated to the obverse, a plaster cast of a Louis XVIII coin (After Auguste-François Michaut, French, 1786–1879) and three port scenes, including two painted on papier-mâché, one smaller portrait miniature on ivory cracked. Various dimensions and formats, title miniature: oval, 93mm (3 11/16in) high (23)