Rare Fine c.1795-99 Portrait Miniature, Incoyables Young Man, Luxuriants After French Revolution, Directoire

Superb portrait miniature, "Incroyables et Merveilleuses" - the slightly smug face of a spoiled rich fashionable Parisian making political statement. An exquisite but unsigned French portrait miniature, handsome young man with powdered hair, dog-ears fashion which along with the massive cravat and huge lapel jacket, sets him squarely into the "Incroyables", c.1795-1799. this blue-eyed young man who wears an elaborate white cravat with his double-breasted coat has large pearl set buttons. He might well have been one of the wealthy students 2 generations later at the 1832 student uprising, Paris, barricade of a real-life Les Miserables, but in fact he dates 40 years earlier. The portrait is, I am certain, late 1700s, and this young group dressed as their protest, were Royalists - he is an aristocrat in support of Royalty overthrown and beheaded in The Terror. A fashion celebrating excess, riches, these young people scandalized Paris in the days after the execution of Robespierre. The his