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Jean Baptiste Augustin, Portrait of King Louis XVIII Miniature portrait as bust of the French King of the Restoration Louis Stanislas-Xavier de France, Comte de Provence (1755 Versailles to 1824 Paris) and brother of King Louis XVI, executed in 1793, who was proclaimed King Louis XVIII after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814. King of France and Navarre (1814-1824), depiction of the monarch in a blue military coat with golden epaulettes with the large silver breast star of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit awarded to him on 2 February 1767 by his brother Louis XVI (1754-1793).: Order of the Holy Spirit] above the breast star of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, on the lapel on a red ribbon hangs the Cross of Saint Louis and below on a green ribbon the Star of Saint Lazarus, although the orders were abolished during the revolutionary years, Louis XVIII tried to reactivate them and deliberately appeared with these decorations - after all, they mark the sitter as a royal descent and monarch, the present official portrait of the French king was created by his personal miniature court painter in larger numbers in tempera on ivory and as enamel miniature, these pictures often served as courtly representational gifts, finest miniature painting in high oval, finest gouache on plate, signed and dated "Augustin 1818" on the left, restored, framed behind glass and brass ring in black lacquered wooden plate, folding dimensions approx. 5 x 3,5 cm. Artist's info: actually Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, French portrait and miniature painter. Portrait and miniature painter (1759 Saint-Dié-des Vosges until 1832 Paris), from 1780 first lessons with Jean-Baptiste Claudot (1733-1805), later pupil of Jean Girardet (1709-1781) in Nancy, 1781 probably temporarily pupil of his brother Georges Nicolas Toussaint Augustin - called Augustin Dubourg - in Dijon, largely self-taught, 1781 moved to Paris, here active as one of the most important miniature painters of his time, 1805 gold medal of the Paris Salon, 1814 appointed by King Louis XVIII as peintre ordinaire du Peintre ordinaire du Paris. 1814 appointment by King Louis XVIII. as Peintre ordinaire du Cabinet du Roi [Court Painter], later promotion to Peintre des Affaires Etrangères and 1819 appointment as Premier peintre en miniature de la Chambre et du Cabinet du Roi [First Miniature Painter of the Royal Chamber and Cabinet], 1820 stay in London, 1821 appointment as Knight of the Legion of Honour, from 1824 also served under King Kark X. as the first miniature court painter at the Parisian court, ran a drawing school in Paris, 1832 illness from cholera, Source: Thieme-Becker, AKL, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Bénézit and Wikipedia.

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