Madame Sauveige seated holding a young girl in her lap in a landscape, Madame Sauveige in lace-bordered white dress and lace bonnet in her curling fair hair and the young girl, in white dress with white ribbon in her short dark hair; foliate background, a boat on a lake and buildings beyond

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FRANÇOIS DUMONT (1751-1831)
Madame Sauveige seated holding a young girl in her lap in a landscape, Madame Sauveige in lace-bordered white dress and lace bonnet in her curling fair hair and the young girl, in white dress with white ribbon in her short dark hair; foliate background, a boat on a lake and buildings beyond
signed 'Dumont' (mid-left)
2 7/8 in. (73 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame

Literature

The artist's second fee book (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fondation Jacques Doucet, MS. 104), folio 11 (between 10 and 20 January 1790): 'Mde Sauveige et une jeune Dlle 35' [louis d'or].

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Lot Essay

The exorbitant price of 35 louis d'or - Dumont charged 10 louis d'or to Queen Marie-Antoinette for the miniature of the Dauphin on 10 January 1790 - can easily be explained by the scenic background and the rather complex composition of this double-portrait. The presence of hands was a further costly factor.
This highly attractive miniature will be included in B. Hofstetter's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of François Dumont's works.

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