A fine miniature of a young gentleman called Monsieur de Damas, seated with his left arm leaning on the back of a sky-blue upholstered chair, in aubergine-coloured coat, white waistcoat, blue vest, knotted cravat, powdered curling hair

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FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)
A fine miniature of a young gentleman called Monsieur de Damas, seated with his left arm leaning on the back of a sky-blue upholstered chair, in aubergine-coloured coat, white waistcoat, blue vest, knotted cravat, powdered curling hair
signed 'Dumont ft' (lower left)
3¼ in. (83 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount within foliate ormolu frame

Literature

H. Bouchot, La Miniature Française, Paris, 1907, III, pp. 99-100, illustrated p. 94.
H. Bouchot, La Miniature Française, Paris, 1910, pp. 128-129.
P.-A. Lemoisne, 'Le portrait-miniature en France [...]' in L'exposition de la miniature à Bruxelles en 1912, Brussels and Paris, 1913, p. 66, note 2.
J.-E. Darmon, Dictionnaire des peintres miniaturistes [...], Paris, [1924], p. 46.

Exhibited

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Oeuvres d'art du XVIIIème siècle, 1906, no. 142.

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Further details

(ALSO ILLUSTRATED ON CATALOGUE FRONT COVER)

Lot Essay

According to H. Bouchot (1910, p. 128), 'M. de Damas alla, d'une pose donnée à Dumont, tout droit à la guillotine'.
This outstanding miniature will be included in B. Hofstetter's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of François Dumont's work.

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