Lot 552
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AUGUSTE EDOUART (1789-1861), 1839-1849
AUGUSTE EDOUART (1789-1861), 1839-1849

A Silhouette of the Honorable Samuel Pennington

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AUGUSTE EDOUART (1789-1861), 1839-1849
A Silhouette of the Honorable Samuel Pennington
The figure standing in profile and holding a drink, signed "Aug. Edouart pinxt Boston 1848"; together with a silhouette of a couple standing between a window and a mantle under a picture illustrating the tomb of George Washington and three portrait busts, all framed
14 x 10in., the largest (5)

Lot Essay

Born in France, Auguste Edouart (1789-1861) spent the years between 1839 and 1849 in America plying his trade as a silhouettist. He travelled extensively and reproduced the likenesses of patrons in New Orleans, Charleston, Washington D.C., New York and, as this silhouette illustrates, Boston (see Groce and Wallace, The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 (New Haven, Connecticut, 1957), p. 207.