細節
JEAN-BAPTISTE-JACQUES AUGUSTIN, dated 1827 and 1829
Two preparatory sketches for the miniatures of Mr and Mrs Arcos; he with curly hair wearing a coat, she with a curly Apollo-knot, wearing a dress with short puff-sleeves and belt; he inscribed "Mr Arcos de Mexiqo 1827. et Mme 1829", she "1829 Mme Arcos de Quito au Mexique à 4,000 lieux de Paris"; both pencil and ink heightened with white chalk on brown paper, rectangular -- he 156 x 131 mm, she 156 x 127 mm, gilt-metal frames. (2)
來源
By descent in the family of the artist's wife, Pauline du Cruet de Barailhon (1781-1865); sold by her grand-nephew Léon de la Fontaine de Coincy (d. 1920) to John Pierpont Morgan; New York, Collection of John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913); his sale, Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 781 (part), sold 17.17 pounds; Lady Louise Lloyd-Jones; thence by family descent.
出版
Henri Bouchot, La miniature française 1750-1825, Paris, 1907, p. 169; George C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, vol. IV, London, 1908, p. 1148, nrs 752 and 753; Henri Bouchot, La miniature française 1750-1825, Paris, 1910, p. 220.
