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In a Naon auction (fancy auction house), I tried to buy this miniature painting back in december 2013.
The artist is a famous French miniaturist.
Now, the questions that needed an answer were:
- Who is depicted ?
- To guess the above, what are those medals ? (was tricky because they are not only French...) -> a clue = at least 1 of those foreign medals was given to very, very few French militaries (that helped a lot)
Inspector Clouseau found it out... But his modest income forced him to stop bidding (sold for 80.000 pesos + fees, I stopped way before lol). An italian watercolor sold for + 1.000.000 pesos in this auction (I was at the back of the room with all the Italian dealers, lasted for 20 minutes & that was quite funny. The other high bidder was on the phone)
http://www.naon.com/.../17539-006.html
The artist is a famous French miniaturist.
Now, the questions that needed an answer were:
- Who is depicted ?
- To guess the above, what are those medals ? (was tricky because they are not only French...) -> a clue = at least 1 of those foreign medals was given to very, very few French militaries (that helped a lot)
Inspector Clouseau found it out... But his modest income forced him to stop bidding (sold for 80.000 pesos + fees, I stopped way before lol). An italian watercolor sold for + 1.000.000 pesos in this auction (I was at the back of the room with all the Italian dealers, lasted for 20 minutes & that was quite funny. The other high bidder was on the phone)

http://www.naon.com/.../17539-006.html