Miniature by Louis Sené (1744-1807), signed on the right : Sené.

The work offers us the portrait of Pierre V de Parseval (1724-1782), advisor to the king, one of the last general farmers, administrator of the Hotel-Dieu and the hospital of the incurables of Paris. 

Painted after the portrait made by Guillaume Voiriot, in his large painting of the Parseval family, exhibited at the Salon of Paris in 1767. Louis Séné, who arrived in Paris from Switzerland in 1765, was at the Academy’s school in the studio of Louis Jean-François Lagrenée. Probably executed during the exhibition of the painting at the Salon of 1767, Sené takes up the portrait of Pierre de Parseval, dressed up, looking dreamy, watching his children play in Voiriot’s painting, changing the color of the jacket.

This painting painted in 1767 by Guillaume Voiriot (1713-1799) and exhibited the same year at the Salon de Diderot, it represents Pierre V de Parseval, his wife Anne-Henriette born André de La Guerche and five of their children, from left to right: Alexandre Philbert Pierre de Parseval (guillotined), Charles-René de Parseval Sieur de Frileuse (guillotined), François Marie de Parseval Sieur de la Thuilerie, Anne-Sophie Augustine future wife of Jacques de Saint-Didier, Augustine Scholastique Victoire, future wife of Denis de Vernan (guillotined) (Bderauglaudre, parseval.net)