Portrait of a young noble beauty  against a landscape background, wearing a large red headdress topped with white feathers (due to the physiognomic similarity probably portrait of  Caroline Bonaparte Murat, the sister of Napoleon). This extremely fine portrait miniature was executed by Marc-Antoine Hervier ( French, active 1783-1820). He was a pupil of David and Aubry, and exhibited at the Salon of Paris from 1810 to 1817. He worked as a painter and miniaturist, and was for some period active in England. Schidlof writes that, "Hervier was an artist who drew well and who seems to have been influenced by Augustin".

Provenance: sale of auction house Kahn - Dumousset SVV, Paris on 7.11.2012; since then - private collection in Paris.

Inscription: signed A. Hervier, in the middle right.

Technique: watercolor on organic wafer (in oval), original period bronze frme.

Measurements: unframed w 2 7/8" x h 3 1/2" (7,3 x 9 cm), framed 3 5/8" x 4 1/8"(8,7 x 10,3 cm).

Condition: very good.