Louis-Marie SICARD, known as SICARDI (Avignon, 1743 - Paris, 1825) Portrait of a Young Man in a Blue Jacket Against a Background of Cloudy Sky Watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, round form Signed and dated 'Sicardi / 1798.' lower left Diameter: 7cm CIC n°2024/BE02123/CE Gilded copper frame Portrait of a gentleman wearing a blue coat, watercolour and gum arabic on circular ivory, signed and dated, by Sicardi D. 2.75 in. Provenance: Jean-Edouard Meister Collection (1895-1981), Geneva, 1956; Anonymous sale; Vienna, Dorotheum, 13 September 1960, no. 190 ; Helfried Krug Collection, Mülheim, 1972; His sale; Cologne, Lempertz, 13 May 1993, no. 232 (sold for DM 6,000); Galerie Anna Maria Wager, Munich, December 1994; Pierre Jourdan-Barry Collection (1926-2016); Then by descent; Private collection, Belgium Exhibitions: Masterpieces of Miniature and Gouache Painting, Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, 1956, no. 480 (on loan from J.-E. Meister) Freunde des Museums sammeln, Essen, Museum Folkwang, 1972, no. 184 (on loan from Helfried Krug) Bibliography: Michel Lauraine, Louis Marie Sicard dit Sicardi (1743-1825), peintre miniaturiste. Biography. s.l., 2005, p.135, n° 176 Louis-Marie SICARD, known as SICARDI (Avignon, 1743 - Paris, 1825)