FRANÇOIS-HIPPOLYTE DESBUISSONS, CALLED HIPOLITE (c. 1745 - after 1807)

A young Lady, in profile to the left, in low-cut silk dress adorned with ropes of pearls, wearing a high-piled long wig entwined with a wreath of flowers, a pearl string and a long muslin veil, with pearl necklace and earrings, painted in blue and grey camaïeu on a dark blue ground

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FRANÇOIS-HIPPOLYTE DESBUISSONS, CALLED HIPOLITE (c. 1745 - after 1807)
A young Lady, in profile to the left, in low-cut silk dress adorned with ropes of pearls, wearing a high-piled long wig entwined with a wreath of flowers, a pearl string and a long muslin veil, with pearl necklace and earrings, painted in blue and grey camaïeu on a dark blue ground
signed and dated 'hipolite D. 1789' (lower right)
2 7/8 in. (74 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount with ribbon-tie surmount

Lot Essay

For a comprehensive article on this interesting artist, with illustrations of several similar profile miniatures, see L. Bedouret, 'Le miniaturiste Hipolite, ou la dynastie des Desbuissons', Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français année 1978, 1980, pp. 191-205.

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