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~ René-Marguerite MAGOL (1753–1793)
Fees include commission and taxes.
Circular miniature portrait on ivory. A man (a senior officer?) shown from the waist up, wearing a navy blue frock coat with gold braids and a red collar with two gold braids. In the background, a large drapery and a column. Signed on the right: R. Magol, with an illegible date.
Late 18th century.
Diameter: 5.9 cm
. Gross weight: 112 g.
(In good overall condition, set in a guilloché-engraved blackened wooden frame with an oval gilt-bronze inner frame)
Elephantidae spp. (I/A), CIC FR2606400057-K issued on 28/04/2026.
- Paul Desbordes Collection (1862–1943), Château Desbordes, Avize (Marne).
- Passed down through the family to the present day.
René-Marguerite Magol, a talented miniaturist, was born in Lyon in 1753 and died in Bordeaux, guillotined on 15 November 1793, at the height of the Revolution. Having settled in Bordeaux in 1780, he was admitted to the Academy of Arts in 1783 and officially accepted as a member in 1786. He served as rector of the institution between 1790 and 1792.