拍品專文
The identity of the sitters was first published in Bodo Hofstetter's thesis on François Dumont in 1994 and will be included in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Dumont.
Cunégonde Brillon de Jouy, born in Paris in 1764, was married in 1783 to the General Marie-Antoine Pâris d'Illins. During the French Revolution, the General emigrated and in 1793 divorced his wife in order to safe her life and their family goods. They remarried in 1801. Madame de Malachelles was Cunégonde's sister; according to Dumont's fee book, both the Pâris d'Illins and the de Malachelles families were among the artist's most important clients at the end of the Ancien Régime.
Cunégonde Brillon de Jouy, born in Paris in 1764, was married in 1783 to the General Marie-Antoine Pâris d'Illins. During the French Revolution, the General emigrated and in 1793 divorced his wife in order to safe her life and their family goods. They remarried in 1801. Madame de Malachelles was Cunégonde's sister; according to Dumont's fee book, both the Pâris d'Illins and the de Malachelles families were among the artist's most important clients at the end of the Ancien Régime.