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~ Jean-Joseph BILFELDT (1793–1869)

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Estimate1 500 - 2 000
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Miniature portrait on ivory, oval. A hussar or chasseur officer on horseback wearing a navy blue dolman with a red-piped collar. Plain mouse-grey background. Signed and dated on the left: Bilfeldt. 1829
Height: 13.9 cm – Width: 10.5 cm
Gross weight: 350 g.
(Minor visible damage, in a marquetry frame with an oval inner frame of chiselled and gilded bronze decorated with palmettes and oak leaves).

Elephantidae spp. (I/A), CIC FR2606400050-K issued on 28/04/2026.

  • Paul Desbordes Collection (1862–1943), Château Desbordes, Avize (Marne).
  • Passed down through the family to the present day.