JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)

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JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
A young lady, in décolleté gold-bordered white dress, gem-set gold belt, curling hair dressed with a mauve ribbon tied in a bow
on ivory
2½ in. (65 mm.) diam., gilt-bronze frame with scroll and pellet border and inner leaf border

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Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

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Lot Essay

Two similar signed and dated miniatures by Augustin, painted around 1794/1795, are illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin. Peintre en miniature, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, musée Pierre-Noël, 2010, p. 49, nos. 25 and 26. For a further similar miniature, signed and dated 1795, see Miniatures from the Bruni Tedeschi Collection, Turin, 2005, no. 12.

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