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Lot 130
Henry Bone, R.A.
(British, 1755-1834)
Comte Victor Louis Alfred de Vaudreuil (1798-1834), wearing purple doublet with gold buttons, white chemise with lace trim to the collar, double stranded gold chain, crimson cloak with gold embroidery and piping
25 May 2011, 14:00 BST
Knightsbridge£2,000 - £3,000
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Henry Bone, R.A. (British, 1755-1834)
Comte Victor Louis Alfred de Vaudreuil (1798-1834), wearing purple doublet with gold buttons, white chemise with lace trim to the collar, double stranded gold chain, crimson cloak with gold embroidery and piping.
Enamel, signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel Comte Alfred/ de Vaudreuil/ London/ Decr 1830/ Painted in Enamel by/ Henry Bone R.A. En-/mel painter to His/ Majesty &c &c after/ the Original by/ G. Hayter, gilt-metal frame with beaded border.
Oval, 45mm (1 3/4in) high
Enamel, signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel Comte Alfred/ de Vaudreuil/ London/ Decr 1830/ Painted in Enamel by/ Henry Bone R.A. En-/mel painter to His/ Majesty &c &c after/ the Original by/ G. Hayter, gilt-metal frame with beaded border.
Oval, 45mm (1 3/4in) high
Footnotes
Victor Louis Alfred was the younger son of Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil (1740–1817), who was a French connoisseur and art collector at the court of King Louis XVI. He was the alleged lover of Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchesse de Polignac (1749–1793), a favourite of Marie Antoinette. The Duchess died in Vienna in 1793 and Joseph married his twenty-year-old cousin, Marie Josephine Hyacinthe Victoire de Vaudreuil (1774-1851) in England two years later. Together they had two sons, Charles Philippe Louis Joseph Alfred (1796-1880) and Victor Louis Alfred (1798-1834).
Joseph championed the work of Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun who painted two known portraits of him in 1784.