MADELEINE PAULINE AUGUSTIN, NEE DU CRUET (FRENCH, 1781-1865)

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MADELEINE PAULINE AUGUSTIN, NEE DU CRUET (FRENCH, 1781-1865)
An officer, in red-piped blue military uniform with silver buttons, epaulettes and aiguillettes, wearing the badges of the Royal French Orders of St Louis and the Legion of Honour, red-lined blue cloak held with a silver chain
signed and dated 'Pauline Augustin 1827.' (lower right)
on ivory (artist's joins)
rectangular, 8 x 6 3/16 in. (202 x 158 mm.), gilt-metal frame with foliate surround

Provenance

Leo R. Schidlof (1886-1966) Collection, in 1924.
Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 November 1993, lot 23.

Exhibited

Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina, 1924, no. 63 (lent by Leo Schidlof).
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 20.
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 22.

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Lot Essay

Pauline was the wife of Jean-Baptiste Augustin and, according to Leo Schidlof, 'She was the best pupil of her husband and his collaborator, and came to adopt his style to such an extent that it is often impossible to distinguish the work of each' (L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, I, p. 54).

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