Lizinka Aimée Zoé de MIRBEL née RUE (Cherbourg, 1796 - Paris, 1849) Portrait of Ferdinand, Duke of Orléans (1810-1842) in grey habit, decorated with the red cordon and the plaque of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour Watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, oval form Signed and dated 'Lizinka de Mirbel 1843' centre right CIC no. 2024/BE02083/CE Gilt bronze mounting with foliate decoration on a rectangular wooden easel panel covered with brown velvet and topped with a gilt bronze bow. Framer's label: 'à François Ier / ALGIER, RUE St HONORE 335 / au coin de celle d'Alger / Papeteries. Nouveautés' on the back Portrait of Ferdinand, Duke d'Orléans (1810-1842) wearing a grey coat, watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, signed and dated, by L. A. Z. de Mirbel 4.17 x 3.31 in. 10.6 x 8.4 cm Provenance: Acquired by the Garde Meuble Royal for the Orléans Family for 3000 francs on 8 May 1843 (See reproduction of the Journal des Commandes et acquisitions des peintures, sculptures et gravures de 1831 à 1848 du Garde Meuble Royal); Ancienne collection Jean Dollfus, 4th sale; Paris, Galerie George Petit, Paris, 20-21 May 1912, no. 171 ; Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Delorme & Collin du Bocage, 3 February 2011, no. 159 (sold for €9,000); Pierre Jourdan-Barry Collection (1926-2016); Then by descent; Private collection, Belgium Bibliography: La Gazette Drouot, n° 6, 11 February 2011, p. 25 (as 'world record for the artist'). (Several mushrooms in the face, the hairstyle, in the background and in the dust jacket) Miniature painter to Louis XVIII, Charles X and Louis-Philippe, Madame de Mirbel studied painting with Jean-Baptiste Augustin. She was appointed miniature painter to the King's Chamber after exhibiting a portrait of Louis XVIII at the Salon in 1818, and in 1824 she married the botanist Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776-1854). Here she portrays the Duc d'Orléans, heir to the July Monarchy, a portrait that she painted in various versions (Musée Condé, Chantilly; Musée Calvet, Avignon, dated 1837; Christie's London sale, 17 October 1995, no. 107, signed and dated 1837; Guizot collection, dated 1845, not located; Sotheby's sale in Paris 29 September 2015 no. 57, signed and dated 1837 and Pohl-Ströhler collection, Sotheby's sale in London, 4 July 2019, no. 174, signed and dated 1842). Our miniature was acquired by the royal furniture guard for the d'Orléans family, as attested by the Journal des Commandes et acquisitions du Garde Meuble Royal then reappeared on the art market in 1912 at the fourth Jean Dollfus sale. Lizinka Aimée Zoé de MIRBEL née RUE (Cherbourg, 1796 - Paris, 1849) 10.6 x 8.4 cm Miniature painter to Louis XVIII, Charles X and Louis-Philippe, Madame de Mirbel studied painting with Jean-Baptiste Augustin. She was appointed miniature painter to the King's Chamber after exhibiting a portrait of Louis XVIII at the Salon in 1818, and in 1824 she married the botanist Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776-1854). Here she portrays the Duc d'Orléans, heir to the July Monarchy, a portrait that she painted in various versions (Musée Condé, Chantilly; Musée Calvet, Avignon, dated 1837; Christie's London sale, 17 October 1995, no. 107, signed and dated 1837; Guizot collection, dated 1845, not located; Sotheby's sale in Paris 29 September 2015 no. 57, signed and dated 1837 and Pohl-Ströhler collection, Sotheby's sale in London, 4 July 2019, no. 174, signed and dated 1842). Our miniature was acquired by the royal furniture guard for the d'Orléans family, as attested by the Journal des Commandes et acquisitions du Garde Meuble Royal, then reappeared on the art market in 1912 at the fourth Jean Dollfus sale.