Details
JEAN-BAPTISTE-JACQUES AUGUSTIN, one signed and dated September 1809
Six sketches for portraits of ladies, and two sketches for portraits of gentlemen, some in pencil, some in watercolour, all on paper or gold-beater's skin -- 64-170 mm, gilt-metal frames. (8)
Six sketches for portraits of ladies, and two sketches for portraits of gentlemen, some in pencil, some in watercolour, all on paper or gold-beater's skin -- 64-170 mm, gilt-metal frames. (8)
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, lots 781 (part), 792 (sold 7.7 pounds) and others; 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, p. 149, nr 757, p. 156, nrs 795, 796, 798 and 799, and others.