Louis-Marie SICARD dit SICARDI (Avignon 1743-Paris 1825)

Portrait of Count Antoine Marie Roederer (1782-1865) Watercolor and gouache on ivory. Signed and dated lower left Sicard/1811. 6,8 x 4,5 cm Antoine Marie Roederer is a politician and prefect, author of numerous works, especially on economics and history. He is the son of the lawyer and politician Pierre Louis Roederer whom he assisted during the coup d'état of the 18 brumaire, He married the daughter of the general César Berthier. Attached to the Court of the Kingdom of Naples under Murat, Roederer was then prefect on several occasions. He managed the family glass factory in Saint Quirin, which he merged with that of Saint-Gobain. He was the first Count Roederer, and was named a peer of France in 1845. Louis Maris Sicard, or Sicardi according to the Italian fashion for names of the time, came from a family of painters. He was his father's pupil before going to Paris around 1774. He quickly met with great success and in 1779, he was admitted as a painter of boxes for the King's household. From this date, he began to paint portraits, first of Louis XVI, then of other members of the royal family. At the end of the 1780s, the political situation led him to expand his clientele.