*Sené, beautiful round miniature on ivory, signed on the lef - Lot 92

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*Sené, beautiful round miniature on ivory, signed on the lef - Lot 92
*Sené, beautiful round miniature on ivory, signed on the left side : "Sené" : Portrait of the Lieutenant General Comte de Jumilhac around 1780, in dark blue habit, gold braids (sky blue, the gold having disappeared), blue waistcoat, white tie ; he wears the grand cordon of commander of the order of Saint-Louis and a plaque on the left side of the habit ; on the back, a handwritten label indicates : "Cte de Jumilhac died in 1798"; gilded, guilloche-gilt brass belly strap; diameter 70 mm. Late Louis XVI period. Very good condition, despite the lack of gold. SENÉ, great miniaturist, born in Geneva on September 22, 1747, † in Paris on December 27, 1804. In 1765, he entered the school of the Academy, in the workshop of Louis Jean François LAGRENÉE. He exhibited in Paris in 1776, 1781 and 1804. Comte de JUMILHAC, colonel of the Royal Navy Regiment, Knight of Saint-Louis, in 1758; lieutenant-general, around 1780; commander of the Order of Saint-Louis, in 1784, perhaps Grand Cross later; died in 1798.
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