17th.Century French School Portrait Miniature On Copper Jean-Baptiste Babin Poet Angelica Kauffman Boy seated and reading a

Boy seated and reading a volume in a studio before a cast of the Christ Child by Michelangelo

The Holy Roman Empire

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Signed inscribed and dated lower right Xmas 1928

Amélie Cossard 1796-1852 French School early 19th

17th.Century French School Portrait Miniature On Copper Jean-Baptiste Babin Poet Angelica Kauffman Boy seated and reading aFrench School Mid 17th. Century Portrait Miniature on copper. Portrait of a Gentleman. Indistincly inscribed to the reverse, Babin, possibly a reference to the sitter, Jean Baptiste Babin Obt. 1670. Advisor to the King, Treasurer of France and the Finance General in Brittany. He was an author of sonnets and poems, two works were published in the collection Posies rares et nouvelles d'auteurs extraordinaires (Paris, Michel Landron, 1662). 4. 6 by 6