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facing right in lace-bordered low-cut white silk dress with white stripped skirt, pink sash, long powdered curling hair, her right hand raised to her face, leaning on a stone plinth strewn with pink roses and flowers, tree and foliage background, ormolu frame Christie's London. A storming bid for this excellent miniature, which carried a pre-sale estimate of between £ 8,000 to 12,000. One has to say that this piece of work was really a masterpiece and even a good buy despite such a devastating bid. Born in Strasburg, Weyler was the pupil of J.M Vien in Paris from 1763 and soon specialised in miniatures on ivory and on enamel though he also produced pastels. He became at 32 a member of the Académie de Paris with the portrait on enamel of Count d'Angiviller as a presentation piece. He exhibited at the Salon from 1775 to 1791 and was without doubt the best French painter on enamel of his time. He painted his miniatures with very sure broad brush strokes in a style similar to that of P.A Hall and often included in them red-brown projected shadows. |
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