AUGUSTIN DUBOURG (FRENCH, 1750-1800[?])

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AUGUSTIN DUBOURG (FRENCH, 1750-1800[?])
A young lady in a woodland landscape cutting pink roses from a rose bush, in blue-bordered white dress with striped muslin layer, blue sash tied around waist with a bow at the back, blue ribbon in her partly upswept powdered curling hair; tree and foliate landscape background
bearing signature and date 'augustin 1788' (mid-left)
on ivory
2 7/8 in. (72 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount later applied with pierced silver foliate surround set with diamonds

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Lot Essay

A similar miniature by Augustin Dubourg of a lady cutting roses was sold Christie's, London, 5 June 2007, lot 125. Dubourg uses a similar pose in a miniature in the Louvre (see P. Jean-Richard, Miniatures sur ivoire. Musée du Louvre. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, illustrated p. 106, no. 155.

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