Aimé Perret

Sale, London, Christie’s, 22 November 1999, lot 138,

Richard Baron Cohen,

his sale, London, ‘The Twinight Collection’, 4 July 2024, lot 103,

where acquired by the present owner

Paris, The Salon, 1838

The sitter was twenty-four when she sat for this portrait. She was a member of the prominent Boissy d’Anglas family, of Protestant lineage from southern France. In 1829 she married Gonzague de Carrion d’Espagne, Vicomte de Nisas (1795–1831), an officer from the Languedoc.

Aimée Perlet studied under Marie Victorine Jaquotot (1772–1855), one of the most renowned Sèvres plaque painters of the early 19^th century, who had herself trained with Charles Étienne Leguay (1762-1846). Perlet worked at Sèvres from 1825 to 1830 before pursuing a career as a portrait painter on porcelain. She exhibited frequently at the Paris Salons and the present work appeared there in 1838 under the title: Portrait de Mme la viscomtesse de N..