Jean Georget (1763 - 1823 Paris) was miniature and porcelain painter of Neoclassicism. He was a pupil of Jacques Louis David and exhibited at the Salon from 1796 with 96 miniatures (incl. portraits of Napoleon, Louis XVIII). Several years he was a singer in a theater, then in 1802 was employed as a figure painter of the manufactory of Sèvres. His copies running in original size paintings were much admired for their fidelity of reproduction and the delicate execution. His principal works are: Francis I.and Charles V. in the tomb of S.Denis, after Gros (1822), the genre scene after Dou (1824), a piece that was not purchased by the Government from him because of high price , so he sold it to England. In Museum of Brunswick is a dessert plate with mythological scene; in Palazzo Pitti in Florence - a vase with a portrait of Napoleon according to Gerard.

Literature: Lexicons by Thieme/Becker, Benezit, Lemberger.

Inscription: signed and dated 1798 lower right .

Technique: gouache on ivory, painted in oval. Original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 5 7/8" x h 7 5/8" (15 x 19,5 cm), framed w 9 1/8" x h 11" (23,3 x 28 cm).

Condition: in fairly condition, vertical crack to the left edge, ca. 6 cm long.