A fine miniature of Jean-Pierre Pagin, holding an alto in his left hand and a bow in his right hand, facing left in blue coat and brown trousers, white striped waistcoat with gold embroidery, white shirt and loose cravat, powderd wig en queue; standing before a harpsichord, sheets of music, an ink pot and quill, music score on a stand, a classical statue of Apollo, book case in the background

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FRANÇOIS DUMONT (1751-1831)
A fine miniature of Jean-Pierre Pagin, holding an alto in his left hand and a bow in his right hand, facing left in blue coat and brown trousers, white striped waistcoat with gold embroidery, white shirt and loose cravat, powderd wig en queue; standing before a harpsichord, sheets of music, an ink pot and quill, music score on a stand, a classical statue of Apollo, book case in the background
signed and dated 'Dumont f. l'an. 8' (lower left)
rectangular, 7 x 5 in. (178 x 127 mm.), gilt-metal frame with banded border

Provenance

John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York; (+) Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 509 (95gns. to Hirschland).

Literature

The artist's second fee book (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fondation Jacques Doucet, MS. 104), folio 29 verso (in the year VIII): 'Le Citoyen Pagin père copié 21' [louis d'or].
G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, IV, London, 1907, no. 613, p. 59, illustrated pl. CCXIII.

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Lot Essay

The year VIII of the Revolutionary calendar corresponded to September 1799 - September 1800. According to Williamson (supra), Jean-Pierre Pagin was born in Paris in 1723. He was a conseiller du roi and trésorier de Son Altesse monseigneur le comte de Clermont (see lot 40). He died at Coulommiers. Dumont's fee book shows that he also painted Mademoiselle Pagin, in the year V of the Revolution (1796/1797) and 'Le Citoyen Pagin fils', probably the son of Jean-Pierre Pagin, in the same year VIII.
This important miniature will be included in B. Hofstetter's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of François Dumont's works.

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