Lot Essay
Boudon went to America and worked in South Carolina towards the end of the Eighteenth Century
Details
David Boudon (born 1750)
A Gentleman, in profile to the left in brown coat, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair en queue
on paper, signed and dated 1792 on the obverse and inscribed on the reverse Fait a Kingston .... de Jamaica par David Boudon peintre de Genève en Suisse Juin 1792, gilt-metal frame
2 1/2in. (63mm.) diam.
A Gentleman, in profile to the left in brown coat, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair en queue
on paper, signed and dated 1792 on the obverse and inscribed on the reverse Fait a Kingston .... de Jamaica par David Boudon peintre de Genève en Suisse Juin 1792, gilt-metal frame
2 1/2in. (63mm.) diam.
Literature
Schidlof, 1964, pl. 87, fig. 151