CHARLES-PAUL-JÉRÔME DE BRÉA

(1740 -1820)

Male portrait with yellow and lilac waistcoat

1796

Signed and dated on the right; Bréa 1796

Watercolor and gouache, oval 6.7 x 4.7 cm.

Gilt bronze frame, 9 x 6.7 cm.

 

Interesting miniature brilliantly executed by De Bréa, signed and dated on the right: Bréa 1796.

Bréa was a painter in oil, pastel, miniature, enamel, had mastered various printing techniques and also traded in works of art.

He probably received his first artistic apprenticeship in his family and in 1771 he joined the Académie de Saint-Luc in Paris. He was a great friend of Hall, so much so that the latter portrayed Bréa in his first attempt at painting on enamel and they influenced each other.

This work is mentioned and published (fig. 5 p.174) in: N. Lemoine-Bouchard, "Charles-Paul-Jérôme de Bréa (1740-1820, his family and his work in miniature" in Bernd Pappe, Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten et Gerrit Walczak (dir.), European Portrait Miniatures, Artists, functions and collections, The Tansey miniatures Foundation, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, Allemagne, 2014, pp. 167-178.

Excellent original state of conservation

Price:  3900€

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, "Charles-Paul-Jerôme Bréa (1740-1820), his family and his work in miniature" in Bernd Pappe, Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten, Gerrit Walczak (eds), European Portrait miniatures, artists, functions and collections , The Tansey miniatures Foundation, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg (Germany) 2014, pp. 167-178; Bénézit, Schidlof, Bouchard, Blattel, Lespinasse, Foster. Clouzot, Bouchot-Saupique

MUSEUMS:

Louvre, Paris; Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus; coll. Tansey, Celle .; MET; National Museum of Ceramics Duca di Marina, Naples; Nationalmuseum Stockholm.