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FRANÇOIS DUMONT, circa 1775/1780
A lady seated on a mauve-upholstered gilt-wood chair in a library interior with mauve drapery and gold tassels in the background, her right arm resting on a table with a red book, her left hand holding a red-bound book gilt-stamped with a coat-of-arms, her upswept grey-powdered hair adorned with white lace, wearing a fur-bordered striped blue dress set with bows and white lace, her wrists decorated with two pearl bracelets set with oval portrait miniatures -- 73 mm diam., engraved two-colour gold mount, set on the cover of a red lacquer Louis XVI bonbonnière with gold mounts marked with the discharge of Jean-Baptiste Fouache, Paris, 1775-1781 (base missing).
A lady seated on a mauve-upholstered gilt-wood chair in a library interior with mauve drapery and gold tassels in the background, her right arm resting on a table with a red book, her left hand holding a red-bound book gilt-stamped with a coat-of-arms, her upswept grey-powdered hair adorned with white lace, wearing a fur-bordered striped blue dress set with bows and white lace, her wrists decorated with two pearl bracelets set with oval portrait miniatures -- 73 mm diam., engraved two-colour gold mount, set on the cover of a red lacquer Louis XVI bonbonnière with gold mounts marked with the discharge of Jean-Baptiste Fouache, Paris, 1775-1781 (base missing).