FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
JEAN-BAPTISTE-JACQUES AUGUSTIN, circa 1810
Details
JEAN-BAPTISTE-JACQUES AUGUSTIN, circa 1810
An unfinished miniature depicting the artist's wife Pauline, wearing a blue dress with white short puff-sleeves, her brown hair adorned with a red-coral studded fillet; oval -- 75 mm high, gilt-metal frame, together with an unfinished miniature of a young gentleman in blue coat and white waistcoat -- 72 mm diam., gilt-metal frame. (2)
An unfinished miniature depicting the artist's wife Pauline, wearing a blue dress with white short puff-sleeves, her brown hair adorned with a red-coral studded fillet; oval -- 75 mm high, gilt-metal frame, together with an unfinished miniature of a young gentleman in blue coat and white waistcoat -- 72 mm diam., gilt-metal frame. (2)
Provenance
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 770 (sitter unidentified), sold 12.12 pounds; Lady Louise Lloyd-Jones; thence by family descent.
Literature
George C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, vol. IV, London, 1908, pp. 138 and 139, nrs 723 and 726.