Louis-Marie SICARD dit SICARDI (Avignon 1743 - Paris 1825) - Lot 56

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Louis-Marie SICARD dit SICARDI (Avignon 1743 - Paris 1825) - Lot 56
Louis-Marie SICARD dit SICARDI (Avignon 1743 - Paris 1825) Portrait of a man with a mole Gouache and watercolor on ivory, oval 6.2 x 5.1 cm Signed and dated lower right Sicardi year 8 Bearing an inscription on the reverse o Sicardi CLa Ft Provenance : Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, February 11, 1999, n° 148, reproduced. Louis-Marie Sicard italianized his name in Sicardi according to the fashion of the time. His father, also a painter, was his first teacher. He came to Paris in 1774, where he was quickly successful. He was admitted in 1779 as a painter of boxes for the King's Household. He painted many portraits of the royal family. The decrease of official orders from 1787, led him to expand his clientele
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