PIERRE-LOUIS BOUVIER, signed, 1800

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PIERRE-LOUIS BOUVIER, signed, 1800

The artist's mother seated in a green upholstered armchair, wearing a white lace mob-cap tied with an ochre ribbon, a grey dress with white fichu, a violet shawl with red, blue and yellow stripes about her shoulders, and a leather glove; oval -- 82 mm high, gilt-metal mount within a black-lacquered rectangular wood panel

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Jeane-Madelaine Le Double (Paris 1731-1810 Geneva) married Jean Bouvier in 1757. The third of their five sons was the future miniaturist Pierre-Louis Bouvier. Élisabeth della Santa (Pierre-Louis Bouvier, "Biographie", Geneva, 1978, p. 16) mentions another portrait of the artist's mother, of 1785, in a case inscribed by the artist's hand: "J'ai fait un plus grand portrait de ma mère en 1800. Ce dernier est parfaitement ressemblant. Il a une main gantée et un schall lie-de-vin, robe grise." There is no doubt that Bouvier referred to the present miniature.

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