French school circa 1775 (Entourage of Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Le Tellier) Portrait of an Officer in White Uniform, Cadet of Malta (King's Infantry Regiment) Watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, round form Bears an apocryphal signature 'hall' lower left Diameter: 6.8 cm CIC n° 2024/BE02029/CE Gold mounting with interlace and ribbon decoration on black horn mounting (Scratches on the base) Portrait of an officer wearing a white uniform, watercolour and gum arabic on circular ivory, French School, ca. 1775 D. 2.68 in. Provenance: Probably Laperlier Collection ; Probably his sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Pillet, 13 April 1867, n°223 (as Portrait du Duc d'Enghien); Collection de M. Vincent, Paris, sold en bloc by his son Prosper Vincent to Félix Panhard on 2 April 1883 for 210,000 gold francs ; Félix Panhard Collection (1842-1891), Paris; By descent to his nephew Hippolyte Panhard; Remained in the Panhard family; Panhard sale; Paris, Palais Galliéra, 5 December 1975, no. 104 (sold for 27,000 frs) ; Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Delorme Collin du Bocage, 16 December 2009, no. 102 (as attributed to Hall, portrait of the Duc d'Enghien, sold for €11,000); Pierre Jourdan-Barry Collection (1926-2016); Then by descent; Private collection, Belgium Exhibitions : Art in the 18th century, Paris, 1883 Œuvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1906, no. 197 Bibliography: Alphonse Maze-Sencier, Le Livre des collectionneurs, Paris, 1885, p. 575, as a portrait of the Duc d'Enghein [sic] by Hall. J.-E. Darmon, Dictionnaire des peintres miniaturistes sur vélin, parchemin, ivoire et écaille, Paris, 1927, p. 60 (verbo "Hall", "is not the Duc d'Enghien, but perhaps Louis-Philippe, Duc de Chartres"). Juliette Boissieux, "Gages d'amour: les miniatures", in abc décor, no. 153-154, July-August 1977, p. 16, colour illustration p. 17 French school circa 1775 (Entourage of Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Le Tellier)