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JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
A young gentleman formerly called Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1756-1794), in brown coat with embroidered floral waistcoat, frilled white cravat, powdered hair worn en queue; together with a lady in blue dress with frills and bows, white lace fichu and cap over her powdered upswept hair, wearing a black choker (French School, circa 1775)
on ivory
ovals, 1¾ in. (45 mm.) high, gold mounts, the former set into the cover of an octagonal purple and brown engine-turned striped composition bonbonnière, the latter set into the cover of a circular tortoiseshell bonbonnière, the centre of the base engraved with a country landscape (2)
A young gentleman formerly called Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1756-1794), in brown coat with embroidered floral waistcoat, frilled white cravat, powdered hair worn en queue; together with a lady in blue dress with frills and bows, white lace fichu and cap over her powdered upswept hair, wearing a black choker (French School, circa 1775)
on ivory
ovals, 1¾ in. (45 mm.) high, gold mounts, the former set into the cover of an octagonal purple and brown engine-turned striped composition bonbonnière, the latter set into the cover of a circular tortoiseshell bonbonnière, the centre of the base engraved with a country landscape (2)
Provenance
The Augustin:
Collection of Joseph Henry Fitzhenry (1836-1913), Paris and London, by 1906 and 1912.
His sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18-21 February 1914, lot 267.
Collection of Joseph Henry Fitzhenry (1836-1913), Paris and London, by 1906 and 1912.
His sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18-21 February 1914, lot 267.
Literature
The Augustin:
J.-E. Darmon, Dictionnaire des peintres miniaturistes sur vélin, parchemin, ivoire et écaille, Paris, n.d. [c. 1928], p. 16.
J.-E. Darmon, Dictionnaire des peintres miniaturistes sur vélin, parchemin, ivoire et écaille, Paris, n.d. [c. 1928], p. 16.
Exhibited
The Augustin:
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, as a temporary loan, no. 1 (lent by Joseph Henry Fitzhenry).
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, OEuvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle , 1906, no. 43 (lent by Joseph Henry Fitzhenry).
Brussels, Hôtel du Baron Goffinet, Exposition de la miniature, 1912, no. 533 (lent by Joseph Henry Fitzhenry).
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, as a temporary loan, no. 1 (lent by Joseph Henry Fitzhenry).
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, OEuvres d'art du XVIII
Brussels, Hôtel du Baron Goffinet, Exposition de la miniature, 1912, no. 533 (lent by Joseph Henry Fitzhenry).
Special notice
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