Antique French Limoges Enamel on Copper Plaque Smoking Cavalier Miniature Portrait Painting Clovis Edmond Masson Palais Royal

Palais Royal

800 different species

circular in form with wheel cut faceted neck

scrolling foliate and florals

as well as their only daughter Jeanne Soyer (1879-1967)

Antique French Limoges Enamel on Copper Plaque Smoking Cavalier Miniature Portrait Painting Clovis Edmond Masson Palais RoyalImportant late 19th century French Limoges painted enamel on copper plaque, dated 1898. The miniature portrait depicting a cavalier smoking a pipe, after a genre painting by German artist Albert Friedrich Schrder. Executed by painter MG under the workshop direction of Thophile Soyer (French, 18531940). Housed in its original Louis XVI style gilt bronze easel frame. The portrait depicts an elegant 17th century cavalier with long reddish hair seated