A mother with her child at her breast; the mother seated facing right in orange dress with lace-bordered blue shot-silk sleeve, white fichu scarf around her shoulders, upswept powdered hair dressed 'à la conseillère', holding her child in her arms lying against a white pillow and touching her left arm, in white dress with pink sash, white bonnet

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JACQUES-ANTOINE-MARIE LEMOINE (1751-1824)
A mother with her child at her breast; the mother seated facing right in orange dress with lace-bordered blue shot-silk sleeve, white fichu scarf around her shoulders, upswept powdered hair dressed 'à la conseillère', holding her child in her arms lying against a white pillow and touching her left arm, in white dress with pink sash, white bonnet
2 7/16 in. (62 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame with inner beaded border and ribbon and tie surmount

Literature

N. Jeffares, 'Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751-1824)', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, February 1999, no. 86, illustrated p. 108.

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Lot Essay

Jeffares (supra) dates this highly attractive miniature about 1788, the year after Lemoine executed his masterwork, the Balcon, now in the Louvre (see P. Jean-Richard, Miniatures sur ivoire. Musée du Louvre. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, no. 421).

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