Gazette Drouot logo print
Lot n° 47

VILLERS (active in the last third of the 18th...

Estimate :
Subscribers only

VILLERS (active in the last third of the 18th century) YOUNG MAN IN BROWN SUIT Miniature on ivory, diam. 6.5 CM Signed and dated lower left: Villers/1792 On the reverse, LM on hair checkerboard Gilded metal frame Total weight: 0.032 kg Attached is Léon Creissels' handwritten card. - Young man in a brown suit, round miniature, signed and dated on the lower left ; Villers/1792 - - Provenance According to Léon Creissels: "Purchased in Montpellier in 1912 for 350 francs-gold, frame not included. It is said to have come from the de Turenne (?) family".