France, 2nd Restoration (1815-1830). - Lot 21

France, 2nd Restoration (1815-1830). Hippolyte CHAPON (c.1790 - ?). Oval miniature in gouache on ivory depicting the bust portrait of a Russian officer. Scarlet piped green uniform, wearing the crosses of SAINTE-ANNE and SAINT-GEORGES on the left breast. Signed on the left "Chapon 1825". Presented in the stuccoed and gilded wood oval view panel with palmettes. The frame is missing. (Wear and minor accidents, the miniature damaged, missing gilded stucco. Fairly good condition.) Miniature 11 x 8 cm. Panel 15.8 x 13 cm. Note: Hippolyte CHAPON, Painter to the Swiss King in 1817. Between 1832 and 1838, he was established as a miniature painter, galerie de pierre (galerie Montpensier) No.65, in the Palais-Royal.