CHABANNE Flavien-Emmanuel (1799-1864), PORTRAITS OF Jean BOUCHARDIER AND HIS WIFE BORN Anne BERTHON DU FROMENTAL, PAIRE OF MINIATURES DATED 1844
Pair of large miniatures, both signed : Chabanne 1844 Named inside : portrait of Mr. Jean Bouchardier and his wife, born Anne Berthon du Fromental. Flavien Emmanuel Chabanne was one of the best miniaturists of his time, sharing his career between Lyon and Paris. For his large-format miniatures, Chabanne used a very special technique : It enlarged the ivory plate by a plaster surround, all fixed on a thick cardboard. After two centuries, the cardboards curved and split the ivories. It is impossible to remove these ivory leaves to restore them, this would destroy the edges painted on the plaster. In miniature as for the other areas of painting, time makes the supports work : the frescoes have their fissures, the oil on canvas their cracks, the miniatures on ivory have their craks to.... so it is.TECHNIQUE:
Watercolor and gouache , protected under a convex glass
ARSTIST:
CHABANNE Flavien-Emmanuel (1799-1864)
SIGNED:
Chabanne 1844
FRAME :
Articulated double ormolu frame
PORTRAIT SIZE:
13x9,5cm
FRAME SIZE:
19x24cm
DESCRIPTION :
CONDITION:
ivories curved, cracks in man's portrait
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Bénézit, Lespinasse, Blattel, Schidlof, Darmon, Foster, Thème et Becker, Lemoine Bouchard, Bernd Pappe