Rare Fine Enamel Portrait Of "george Gordon Byron" In Left Profile From The 19th Century, Framed

This rare beautiful portrait painted in enamel on copper of Lord George Gordon Byron (1788 -1824) in left profile, presented in a charming gilded frame chiseled in the Venetian style, represents one of the first "English Romantics". Finely painted with delicacy in the composition and color of a beautiful rectangular enamel in the period from his thirties to the height of his life, comes from a chateau in the Tarn and from a private collection; marked on the right with a discreet monogram and on the left at the top BYRON in gold letters. It is incontestably a beautiful piece of quality and very representative of this famous legendary character of whom Flaubert said: the honor of a woman seemed to him a rose, but a rose of which everyone passing could take the perfume, fade it and wither it. He had a hundred mistresses, loved only one, and even then, he treated her roughly and disdained her, for his mad and unbridled love. He constantly had about twenty horses in his stable, he adored them all. He did not like France, because in France there is not enough fog or enough snow; in France one does not breathe as in Venice, the perfumed air of some city. He was an atheist, and he would spend whole days in a church, plunged into silent contemplation or deep meditation. When he was in England, he would go out alone, on horseback, and he liked to make his nice Arab mare turn white with foam, contemplating the smoke of his cigarette which flew away in the breath of the wind.