Louis Marie SICARD dit SICARDI (1743 - 1825) Charles Antoine - Lot 25

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Louis Marie SICARD dit SICARDI (1743 - 1825) Charles Antoine - Lot 25
Louis Marie SICARD dit SICARDI (1743 - 1825) Charles Antoine COYPEL, after (1694 - 1752) Portrait of Mister Dupillé in dressing gown sitting at the edge of a window Large and rare rectangular miniature signed at the bottom right. Under glass. Gilt and chased bronze frame. 11,5 x 8,5 cm Provenance : Collection Norbert de Beaulieu OEuvre en rapport : CHRISTIE'S Monaco, Charles Antoine COYPEL, " Portrait de Monsieur et Madame Dupillé 1733 ", June 19, 1994, n°71. Biography : Coming from a family which already had two generations of painters, Louis- Marie Sicard, miniature and enamel painter, and painter "en grand", was approved member of the Academy of Bordeaux in 1769. In 1779, he was approved by the King's House for the execution of portraits to decorate the present boxes. Sicard had already obtained commissions from the royal family (1772: Portrait of Marie-Antoinette, still the runner-up). In 1776, he had been commissioned to paint a miniature copy of the Portrait of Monsieur, Count of Provence, to be offered to Lattaignant de Bainville. For this copy, he obtained the sum of 144 livres on March 1, 1777. The first Portrait of Louis XVI painted by Sicard(i) and inscribed in the King's presents dates from 1779. Other portraits of Louis XVI follow. Official commissions for portraits of the King having diminished from 1787, Sicardi widened his clientele in order to increase his income. Facing financial difficulties on the eve of the Revolution, he stayed in London. It was only at the turn of the 19th century that he again produced remarkable works. In his Memoirs, General Thiébault, who had visited the exhibition at the Central Museum of Arts in the year IX (1800/1801), wrote "Sicardi, who was then at the height of his talent, had at that exhibition portraits in miniature which struck me at the last point, and by the merit of the painting, and by a vigour which competed with the most beautiful oil portraits, by a life which I found in no other, by the excessiv
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