Rare historic testimony: portrait of the writter Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794) paints by Louis-Lié Périn Salbreux. Miniature signed to the right : L. Périn, and identified with the lapel by a handwritten inscription: " sale Sinoquet / de Florian 1755+1794 / painted by Perin / coming from the cabinet / of Mr Royal then of / his protector " .

Jean-Pierre de Florian (1755-1794) was a playwright, a novelist, a poet and a writer of fables. Nephew of Voltaire, the duke de Penthièvre, who had given him to its court the title of ordinary gentleman, stayed his life during his friend and its protector. He was elected member of the Académie française in 1788. Forced, as noble, to leave Paris during the French Revolution, he takes refuge with Sceaux. He begins to translate and to adapt don Quichotte by Cervantes . In spite of the support of his friend François Antoine de Boissy d' Anglas, he was arrested in 1794, Numa Pompilius's dedicatory epistle which he had written to the eight-year-old queen earlier, harming against  him in front of the committee of general safety. Released in the fall of Robespierre 9 thermidor the year II (thanks to Boissy d' Anglas), he dies suddenly on Fructidor 27th the year II, at the age of thirty nine years, probably from consequences of his detention which deteriorated a tuberculosis contracted several years previously.

Origin:

-Sale Sinoquet, Paris, 1858, Martin and Febvre, experts, under  n°40.

- page 32 of the catalog of the muse  Cognacq-Jay, Paris muse is, on 2002

 - Collection  Dablin (1781-1861)