Théodore-Sébastienne HARRIET, née GALLET, later Mrs Denis Charles FAYE ((?), circa 1779 - Paris,1852) Presumed portrait of the painter Fulchran-Jean Harriet (1776-1805), the artist's husband Watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, round form Signed 'Me harriet' on the right Diameter: 7.8 cm CIC n° 2024/BE02103/CE Chased and gilded bronze frame Presumed portrait of Fulchran-Jean Harriet (1776-1805), watercolour and gum arabic on circular ivory, signed, by T.-S. Harriet, born Gallet, later Mme D. C. Faye D.: 3.07 in. Provenance: Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Delorme Collin du Bocage, 2 February 2010, no. 60 (sold for €22,000) Galerie Talabardon et Gautier, Paris, catalogue 2010-2011, no. 2 repr. "probably Salon de 1806 part of no. 246"; Pierre Jourdan-Barry Collection (1926-2016); Then by descent; Private collection, Belgium Exhibitions: Probably Salon de 1806, Paris, n° 246 ("un cadre de miniatures selon lesquels sont deux portraits de son mari") Bibliography: La Gazette Drouot, no. 6, 12 February 2010 Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, La lettre de la miniature, Nov-Dec 2023, p. 16, no. 74 Very few works are known of the painter Fulchran-Jean Harriet, gifted with immense talent but forgotten by posterity due to his death at less than thirty years of age. A pupil of David and winner of the Prix de Rome in 1793 with his Brutus, he was inventive in his generally ambitious compositions. Our portrait was probably part of the posthumous exhibition that paid tribute to him at the Salon of 1806. Théodore-Sébastienne HARRIET, née GALLET, later Mme Denis Charles FAYE ((?), circa 1779 - Paris,1852) Very few works are known of the painter Fulchran-Jean Harriet, who was gifted with immense talent but forgotten by posterity due to his death at less than thirty years of age. A pupil of David and winner of the Prix de Rome in 1793 with his Brutus, he was inventive in his generally ambitious compositions. Our portrait was probably part of the posthumous exhibition that paid tribute to him at the Salon of 1806.