GAYE Joseph (1803-1862), PORTRAIT OF Jules SCHAEFFER, LUTHIER, MINIATURE CIRCA 1850

TECHNIQUE: Watercolor and gouache on ivory, protected under its original flat glass

ARSTIST: GAYE Joseph (1803-1862)

SIGNED: Gaye

FRAME : Gilded circle metal mount

PORTRAIT SIZE: 12,5x9,5 cm

FRAME SIZE: 13,5x11cm

DESCRIPTION :

Large miniature by Joseph Gaye (1803-1862), signed lower  right : Gaye.

Identified on the reverse : "miniature portrait of Jules Schaeffer, luthier in Caen, work of J.B. Corot in payment of a violin"

It seems that we had not seen the signature at the time, because no, this beautiful portrait is not by  Corot, but by Joseph Gaye, pupil of Aubry

Joseph Gaye was a pupil of Aubry. He exhibited regularly at the Paris's Salons from 1831 to 1861. On two occasions, the State commissioned him to take miniature portraits of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie, after  Winterhalter's apinting.

His works can be found in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Chartres and in the Wallace Collection , London.


CONDITION: A vertical crack and a horizontal stripe restored by Dr. Bernd Pappe

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