Lot Essay
Another version of this miniature, signed and dated 1815, formerly in the collection of the sitter's fifth son, the Duke of Aumale, is in the musée Condé, Chantilly, cabinet des gemmes, no. 55.
The gold beater's skin on the reverse of this miniature is inscribed by the artist's hand: 'Augustin A Paris rue Croix des petits Champs no. 25'
H. Bouchot (La miniature française 1750-1825, Paris, 1910, p. 218) relates that Augustin was appointed Cabinet Painter in Ordinary to the King on 15 September 1814, by King Louis XVIII, upon the presentation of three portrait miniatures depicting the King himself, the Duke of Berry and the Duke of Orléans.
The gold beater's skin on the reverse of this miniature is inscribed by the artist's hand: 'Augustin A Paris rue Croix des petits Champs no. 25'
H. Bouchot (La miniature française 1750-1825, Paris, 1910, p. 218) relates that Augustin was appointed Cabinet Painter in Ordinary to the King on 15 September 1814, by King Louis XVIII, upon the presentation of three portrait miniatures depicting the King himself, the Duke of Berry and the Duke of Orléans.