Pierre DAUBIGNY (Paris, 1793 - Paris, 1858). Portrait... Lot 31

Pierre DAUBIGNY (Paris, 1793 - Paris, 1858). Portrait of Caroline Poirson in white dress, both hands crossed, as a counterpart to a Portrait of a man with the Legion of Honor, in three-quarter bust to the left, graying hair, signed to the right Daubigny, Pair of miniatures on ivory pasted on cardboard, rectangular 13 x 9 cm, (cracks) The young woman annotated on the reverse "Caroline Poirson / Portrait of Madame / Poirson / by Daubigny / year 1833 / Paris". This may be Charles Gaspard Poirson, known as Delestre Poirson, man of letters and playwright (1790-1859), knighted in the Legion of Honor in 1826, and his daughter Elisabeth Louise Caroline Emilie Poirson (1820-1867), married on April 21, 1839 in Paris to Charles Yvan Lhuillier (born in 1812). The miniatures would have been made shortly after this marriage because the young woman wears her wedding ring. Under passe-partout in important wood and gilded stucco frames circa 1840 (small accidents) Gross weight (without the frame) : 0,106 kg each Expert : Nathalie Lemoine Bouchard