"En contemplant mes traits, ne songez qu'à mon coeur" - "Contemplating my features, only think of my heart" Jacqueline du Pasquier.

This hardcover book with 256 color pages and great illustrations presents the miniatures portrait painting, on vellum, ivory and paper, from the beginning of the 16th century, when it first appeared in England, until the last years of the 19th century which saw its gradual extinction.
Mounted as a jewel, present on or inside a box or in a box to escape the prying eyes, accompanied by the hair of the loved one, it was ardently loved, as evidenced by literature and painting.
It was also a diplomatic gift between sovereigns, even if its connotation remains sentimental.
Painted on ivory from the second half of the 18h century, it knows a craze that affects all classes of society and that the Revolution and the Napoleonic wars will only amplify.
His various roles are described, accompanied by an evocation of the most talented and original artists who have practiced this art, in England, France and throughout Europe where the miniature reigns until the mid-19th century.
Between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, its golden age, it is relayed by the physionotrace, engraving portrait in small, then by the miniature on hard porcelain which develops and perfected during the first half of the 19th century.
Abundantly illustrated, this book has the merit, which should also interest specialists, to discover unknown works of high quality from private collections and unveil some masterpieces, until now not yet published.

Contents:

• The miniature, country of memory and feelings, foreword by Emmanuel de Waresquel
• Balzac and the celebration of the miniature through the novel
• The consolation of the absence
• Miniature?
• Painting and floor are two paths through which one can enter the house memory
• Miniature and the King
• In the heart of Elizabethan culture
• Hans Holbein or "the art of identifying structures of the mind in a face"
• Serving the Queen
• Treatise Concerning the Arte of Limming, technique of miniature limming on vellum
• Poetry and mystery
• "Such a good portrait is well worth the money"
• Rosalta and the born of ivory
• "Miniature is a eternal and universal art"
• Technique of the miniature on ivory
• Autissier, a French miniaturist in Brussels
• Territory of intimate portrait
• Death and remembrance
• The eye or the detail exalted
• Power of hair
• "The profile of the face gives the reality of life..."
• Marie-Victoire Jaquotot the miniature on porcelain
• Dagoty or the discreet charm of the miniature
• Photography dethrone painting
• Any work is dead when love withdraws
• Other eye
• Louis-Ami Arlaud-Jurinne
• Conservation and restoration
• The legacy of Lefebvre de Viefville
• Bibliography
• Index

The French texts are written by Fabienne Xavière Sturm, Claude Tammer and Chantal Bouchon with a foreword by Emmanuel de Waresquel.

Printed in 2010, this book is NEW and is 8 inches x 10 inches ( 21 cm x 26 cm )