Johann Julius HEINSUIS (Hildburghausen, 1740 - Orléans,1812) Couple embracing Watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, round form Signed and dated 'Heinsius / 1790' centre left Diameter: 8 cm CIC n° 2024/BE02099/CE Giltwood frame by Adolphe Chadouteau Inscribed 'Chadouteau bijoutier / monteur 49 rue Volta / 15 juillet 1871' on the reverse of the frame Couple embracing each other, watercolour and gum arabic on circular ivory, signed and dated, by J. J. Heinsuis D. 3.15 in. Provenance: Collection consul Eugen Gutmann (1840-1925), Berlin ; Collection Greta Shield Heckett, née Mankiewitz (1899-1976), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Its first sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 4 May 1977, no. 63 (sold for 4,000 French francs); Hans-Erich Fischer-Curti Collection (1934-2019), Menziken, Switzerland; His sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 14 November 1985, no. 273; Galerie Anna-Maria Wager, Munich, in 1994 (advertised in Weltkunst no. 3, February 1994, p. 254); Pierre Jourdan-Barry Collection (1926-2016); Then by descent; Private collection, Belgium Bibliography: Otto von Falke (editor), Die Kunstsammlung Eugen Gutmann, Berlin, 1912, no. 315, p. 99, plate 73 Related work: A reduced copy, illustrated in Graham Reynolds, Wallace Collection. Catalogue of Miniatures, London, 1980, p. 134, no. 100 ("Artist Unknown"). Although the artist is best known as an oil painter and for his position as official painter to Mesdames, daughters of King Louis XV, our miniature, which is reminiscent of Fragonard, bears witness to his great talent in this art, which he seems to have developed from the revolutionary period onwards. He settled in Orléans the year he painted our miniature, and is mentioned there as a miniature painter in 1793 in the Calendrier historique de l'orléanais (Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniatures, 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 282). Johann Julius HEINSUIS (Hildburghausen, 1740 - Orléans,1812) Related work: A reduced copy, illustrated in Graham Reynolds, Wallace Collection. Catalogue of Miniatures, London, 1980, p. 134, no. 100 ("Artist Unknown"). Although the artist is best known as an oil painter and for his position as official painter to Mesdames, daughters of King Louis XV, our miniature, which is reminiscent of Fragonard, bears witness to his great talent in this art, which he seems to have developed from the revolutionary period onwards. He settled in Orléans the year he painted our miniature, and is mentioned there as a miniature painter in 1793 in the Calendrier historique de l'orléanais (Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniatures, 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 282).