Round box in powder-gray lacquered composition with gold sta - Lot 81

Round box in powder-gray lacquered composition with gold stars, the interior lined with tortoiseshell, the lid decorated with a miniature depicting the presumed portrait of Marguerite de Valois, signed and dated on the left CARTEAUX/ P.D. ROY/ 1785 (Jean François Baptiste Carteaux, 1751-1813). Inside, an old printed label: "244". (small accidents and missing pieces). Diam. 7.9 cm Diam. of the minitaure: 6 cm In a green morocco case with gilt frieze and gilt lettering: "Carteaux/1785/Marguerite de Valois" (small accident at hinge). Bibliography: Les peintres en miniature, Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, Ed. de l'Amateur 2008, p. 142-143: "Jeune femme, Marguerite de Valois? the signature on the left reads Cartiaux 1785, diam. 6 cm, on a tortoiseshell box (coll. Marquis de Serre, sale April 20, 1883, no. 97; 1st Panhard sale, Palais Galliera December 6, 1975, no. 33 not reproduced; 2nd Félix Panhard sale, Drouot, Mes. A.P. March 18, 1976, no. 55, not reproduced): probably also by Carteaux. Note: our miniature looks more like a portrait from the Ecole du Nord than the known portraits of Marguerite de Valois.