CAMPANA Ignazo Pio Vittoriano (1744-1786), MINIATURES PORTRAITS OF DUCHESS AND PRINCESS DE TARENTE, DUCHESS DE LA TREMOILLE, GOLD TABATIERE, 1780

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

ARSTIST: CAMPANA Ignazo Pio Vittoriano (1744-1786)

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FRAME : Tortoiseshell box fully lined with gold (punches), the names engraved inside.

PORTRAIT SIZE: 4,5x3,5cm

FRAME SIZE: 9x5,5x2,5

DESCRIPTION :

Exceptional grouping of two miniatures by Ignazo Pio Vittoriano Campana (1744-1786), the two portraits having, rare facts, their two names engraved in gold, inside the tabatière. 

On the left, in blue dress, Amable Émilie de Chastillon-Porcéan, Duchess d'Uzès (1761-1840). On April 8, 1777 she married Marie François de Crussol, Duke d' Uzès (1756-1843).

To the right, in pink dress, her sister, Louise Emmanuelle de Chastillon-Porcéan, Princess de Tarente, Duchess de la Tremoille (1763-1814), she married Charles Bretagne Marie de la Tremoille, Duke de Thouars, Duke de Tremoille, Prince de Tarente (1764-1839) on July 20, 1781. The princess de Tarente, a refugee in England, after leaving the prison of the Abbey, wrote her memories from the early years of the Revolution until 1792. Louise was appointed Dame du Palais of Queen Marie-Antoinette in May1785, she devoted herself completely to the Queen and was inconsolable from her loss. She never wanted to return to France, became a Dame du Palis  at the Russian court, where she died in 1814.

The two miniatures were collected on a luxurious tabatière of brown scales entirely lined with gold (punches of Master Goldsmith P.J.O. Paris 1798-1809), where the names of the young women and of their painter ("Painted in 1780 by Campana") have been engraved.


CONDITION: Very good original condition, never disassembled (dust under glasses of miniatures). A small crack in the shell of an angle of the snuffbox

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bénézit, Lespinasse, Blattel, Schidlof, Darmon, Foster, Thème et Becker, Lemoine Bouchard, Bernd Pappe