SAUVAGE Piat-Joseph (1744-1818), VICTORY LEADING HER QUADRIGE, MINIATURE ON GOLD BOX, CIRCA 1795

TECHNIQUE: Watercolor and gouache on ivory, protected under a convex glass

ARSTIST: SAUVAGE Piat-Joseph (1744-1818)

SIGNED: Sauvage

FRAME : Original tortoiseshell box, gold mounted (gold punches)

PORTRAIT SIZE: 8 cm

FRAME SIZE: 8,5x2,5cm

DESCRIPTION :

Important painted miniature " in grisaille ", signed below : Sauvage.

Piat-Joseph Sauvage presents here Victory, guiding her quadriga. The originalle composition is wilde and full of ardour, horses are there particularly realistic.

Doubtless painted during the revolutionary period, this large-sized miniature, is preserved on its snuff box of origin in brown scale gold mounted.


CONDITION: Very good condition. A begining of crack restaured

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bénézit, Lespinasse, Blattel, Schidlof, Lemoine Bouchard, Henri Bouchot, François Pupil, Bernd Pappe

PRICE: 5500€