Jean-François Guillet dit VALLIÈRE - Lot 40

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Jean-François Guillet dit VALLIÈRE - Lot 40
Jean-François Guillet dit VALLIÈRE (Paris, 1743 - Commercy, 1806) Presumed portrait of Anne Cécile de Nolivos (Sauveterre de Béarn, 1758-?) in salmon dress, transparent wimple and blue ribbon in her wig, long hair tied back with a large blue bow. Old identification on reverse: "Madame de la Roche née de Nolivos". Miniature drawn with three pencils and enhanced with gouache on paper, diam. at sight 7.5cm, Antique gilded wood frame, oval 10.9x11cm (accidents to frame, diseased glass). Daughter of Paul de Nolivos and Jeanne Marie de Casamajor Salabert, younger sister of Marquis Pierre de Nolivos, sister-in-law of Louise Pauline d'Holbach (see previous issue), she married Louis-François-Armand de Laroche, écuyer de Sauveterre, lieutenant-colonel of infantry, in 1789 in their Sauveterre de Béarn fiefdom. They had a son who joined Napoleon's honor guard, and was killed in Leipzig in 1813. On Vallière, an important portraitist of the aristocracy under Louis XVI, often confused with Carmontelle, see N. Lemoine-Bouchard, La Lettre de la miniature no. 58 (March-April 2021), p.3-19.
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