Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, May 10, 2020
LOT 235
Unsigned - Large cabinet miniature; enamel
HKD 30,000 - 40,000
USD 3,900 - 5,200 / EUR 3,600 - 4,800 / CHF 3,900 - 5,200
Enamel, horizontal rectangular-shaped, large cabinet miniature. Polychrome painting on enamel on copper, showing “Rouget de Lisle sings la Marseillaise for the first time”, after a painting (oil on canvas, 1849) of Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (1813-1875), kept today in the Musée historique de la Ville de Strasbourg.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3-70-73 |
Good ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairline ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Chipped under bezel,not visible when closed |
Brand Unsigned, France or Geneva
Year circa 1860-1880
Material enamel
Dimensions 108 x 153 mm. (with the gilded frame)
Height 97.3 mm. (without frame)
Width 143 mm. (without frame)
Biography
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, sometimes spelled de l’Isle or de Lile (1760-1836), was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the “Chant de guerre pour l’armée du Rhin” in 1792, which would later be known as “La Marseillaise” and become the French national anthem.