JACQUES-ANTOINE-MARIE LEMOINE (1751-1824)

Les deux filles de l'auteur avec leur mre: Lemoine's two daughters burning flowers on the tomb of their mother who appears before them

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JACQUES-ANTOINE-MARIE LEMOINE (1751-1824)
Les deux filles de l'auteur avec leur mre: Lemoine's two daughters burning flowers on the tomb of their mother who appears before them
signed in pencil 'Lemoine' (lower right)
gouache and pastel on card inlaid with slips in the flesh areas
rectangular, 11.5/8 x 7 in. (294 x 191 mm.), gilt-wood frame

Literature

E. Bellier de la Chavignerie/L. Auvray, Dictionnaire gnral des artistes, Paris, 1882, I, p. 998.
N. N. Oursel, Nouvelle biographie normande, Rouen, 1886, II, pp. 132, 134.
L. Gillet, Nomenclature des ouvrages de peinture [...], Paris, 1911, p. 218.
A. Poussier, Notice biographique sur Lemoine [...], Rouen, 1914.
G. Le Breton, 'Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine [...]', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XII (4), 1914, p. 33.
P. Lespinasse, La miniature en France au XVIIIe sicle, Paris/Brussels, 1929, p. 174.
M. Jeune, 'Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine', La Rvolution en Haute-Normandie, 1988, p. 290.
J.-F. Heim, C. Braud, P. Heim, Les Salons de peinture de la Rvolution franaise 1789-1799, Alenon, 1989, p. 272.
J. Baillio, 'Vie et oeuvre de Marie Victoire Lemoine', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, CXXVII, 1996, p. 159.
N. Jeffares, 'Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751-1824)', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, February 1999, pp. 65, 72, 74 (described as 'extraordinary'), 112-113, no. 114, illustrated.

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1795, no. 330, as 'Une miniature, reprsentant les deux filles de l'Auteur, brlant des fleurs sur le tombeau de leur mre morte, qui leur apparit'.

Lot Essay

The sitters on this important miniature are the artist's wife, Agathe-Franoise Lemoine, ne Bonvallet (c. 1753-1794) who was herself an artist, and their two daughters Agathe-Jeanne-Thrse (c. 1785-after 1824) and Antoinette-Flicit-Virginie (b. c. 1792).

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