An Important Portrait Miniature of Adélaïde Roslin holding her elder son Abraham in her arms, she, facing left in light grey silk dress with white muslin fichu, powdered long curly hair, her son facing left, in frill-bordered white chemise, with short blond hair, sliding his right hand into his mother's decollete; wooded garden landscape background

Alexandre-Antoine Roslin (1764-1799), son of the celebrated Swedish portrait painter Alexandre Roslin, married Adélaïde, born in 1773, daughter of André-Martin Abraham and Marie-Jeanne Cavenel, on 27 November 1793. They had two sons, Abraham (1794-1870) and Alexandre-Gustave (1797-1877). Abraham Roslin, depicted as a baby on the present miniature, married first, in 1823, Louise-Sophie Bricard (180?-1826), and secondly, in 1830, Louise-Charlotte Langlumé de Courtil (1811-1890). Abraham Roslin had ten children, and it is possible that the heritage question caused the sale of the Roslin heirlooms after Louise-Charlotte Roslin's death in 1890.

A miniature representing Adélaïde Roslins's sister, Madame Teinière, née Abraham, is in the Louvre (see P. Jean-Richard, Miniatures sur ivoire. Musée du Louvre. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, pp. 276-277, no. 506).