Pierre Charles CIOR (1769-1840) Young boy with a harlequin and a basket of roses Oil on canvas, signed lower left "Cior. "(Small restorations) Wooden frame and gilded stucco 61 x 49 cm Biography: Pierre Charles Cior is a pupil of Bazil. He exhibits a frame containing several miniatures at the Salon of 1796, and two other miniatures in 1799 (portraits of Louis-Antoine Saintomer the elder and his wife). It is only 31 years later, in 1831, that Cior participates again in the Salon. He made his last appearance there in 1838. This artist traveled a lot throughout his career but the details of his travels are unknown to us. He is the official miniaturist of the King of Spain and executed for Russia the portraits of Emperor Paul I and his wife, Prince Kurakin, Prince Nerarkin and his son, Prince Jnoupow and his son, Princess Poniatowska and the Dowager Empress of Russia. He also painted portraits of Pope Pius VII, the Queen of the Netherlands, Prince Eszterhazy Sr., Mme de Laval, the Duke of Luxembourg, and Mlle de Montmorency. He also left the portrait in miniature of Louis XVIII, a young portrait of Marie-Amélie de Bourbon-Siciles, the last Queen of the French, wife of Louis-Philippe, as well as that of several other personalities.
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