JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832) AND STUDIO

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JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832) AND STUDIO
A young lady called Suzanne Denis de Cuzieu (1770-1825), in décolleté white dress with red sash tied around waist and ochre scarf, seated in a wooded landscape and decorating a statue of Cupid with a garland of flowers
on ivory
3 11/16 in. (94 mm.) diam., stamped gilt-metal mount on a red velvet panel with metal spandrels within a rectangular stamped gilt-metal frame

Provenance

According to two old labels on the reverse:
Given by the daughter of the present sitter, Aimée Jeanne Athénaïs Denis de Cuzieu, Madame de Saint-Thomas (1796-1871), to her own daughter Madame Andrieu de Vaulx.
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 March 1994 (as by Isabey).

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Lot Essay

Suzanne 'Christiane' d'Affaux de Glattas married on 28 September 1790 at the age of twenty Charles Aimé Ovide Denis de Cuzieu (1764-1848), Mayor of Saint-Lager (Rhône), Lieutenant Colonel of the Guards of Honour. They had three children: Charles, Blaise and Aimée Jeanne, to whom the present miniature was given.

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