Comtesse Philippe de Ségur (d. 1813) with her right arm around her son Paul (1809-1888); she, in white dress with gauze border and pale blue sash, her dark brown hair upswept and dressed in curls, her left arm leaning on a moss-covered upholstered chair and her young son in white dress with short dark hair; foliate background

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JEAN-URBAIN GUÉRIN (FRENCH, 1760-1836)
Comtesse Philippe de Ségur (d. 1813) with her right arm around her son Paul (1809-1888); she, in white dress with gauze border and pale blue sash, her dark brown hair upswept and dressed in curls, her left arm leaning on a moss-covered upholstered chair and her young son in white dress with short dark hair; foliate background
oval, 3 1/16 in. (78 mm.) high, ormolu easel frame by Alphonse Giroux with pierced laurel and berry cresting

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Antoinette Charlotte Le Gendre de Luçay, wife of Philippe Comte de Ségur (1780-1873), had two children, Marie-Charlotte de Ségur, later Marquise de Bonneval, and Paul, depicted on the present miniature.
For a variant of this miniature, see E. Bucher/B. Hofstetter, Französische Miniaturen 1770 bis 1880, Darmstadt, 2001, no. 159.

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