A pregnant lady, seated in a wooden and tapestry covered chair, full face in low-cut grey silk dress with embroidered white gauze sleeves, wearing black enamel bracelets and necklace set on double gold chains, jewel-set enamel ring on the third finger of her right hand resting on her stomach, her left hand with two gold rings holding the embroidered gauze scarf falling from her curling brown hair

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LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER (1772-1830)
A pregnant lady, seated in a wooden and tapestry covered chair, full face in low-cut grey silk dress with embroidered white gauze sleeves, wearing black enamel bracelets and necklace set on double gold chains, jewel-set enamel ring on the third finger of her right hand resting on her stomach, her left hand with two gold rings holding the embroidered gauze scarf falling from her curling brown hair
signed and dated 'Autissier p:t an 10' (lower left)
rectangular, 7½ x 4 7/8 in. (190 x 123 mm.), later black painted wood frame with gilt inner border

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Lot Essay

According to the Revolutionary calendar, the present miniature must have been painted between September 1801 and September 1802. Autissier had established himself in Brussels in 1796 and left for Holland in 1806.

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