Hardcover
1899 · London
London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1899. Hardcover. Good. Original pinkish paper-covered baords and paper spine. Patterned endpapers. 34 pp + 25 bw photographic reproductions with tissue guards. Stupendous catalogues lists 101 works. This included 4 Troyon paintings. Jean-Louis Miéville (d. 1897) was born in Switzerland in 1808, but had come to England by 1830, when he married his wife Mary-Ann. He is listed in the 1881 census as the head of household at 30 Connaught Square, and by the time of his death lived at 103 Lancaster Gate. The sale at Christie's on 29 April 1899 of the "Highly Important Collection of Ancient and Modern Pictures formed by Jean-Louis Miéville, Esq." included a range of English, Dutch and French artists gathered together very much in the collecting style of the 1830s, as well as Oriental Porcelain sold in a sale on the previous day, and a collection of French Furniture which was subsequently inherited by his grandson.
(Inventory #: 156831)