Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (French, 1759-1832)

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Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (French, 1759-1832)
Suzanne Fleuriot (1775-1822), née du Garzpern, Comtesse de Langle, in white dress, holding a bouquet of roses in her left hand
Signed and dated ‘Augustin / à Paris / 1816.’ (mid-left)
Inscribed on the reverse ‘portrait. 1080 L – Cristal 50 – Cadre, 40 – étui en maroquinerie, 10 – total, 1180’
On ivory
Oval, 77 mm. high, rectangular gilt-metal frame, within a red Morocco case and its original receipt inscribed ‘note pour Monsieur le Marquis de Langle J’ai reçu le montant cy-dessus (1.180 fr) - Augustin’

Provenance

Madame de B….; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 22 June 1938, lot 74.
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in Paris, 1 September 1938 (inv. nos. MD/0176 and 29).

Literature

de Langle / Schlumberger 1957, p. 105, illustrated.
Lemoine-Bouchard 2008, p. 62.
Pappe 2015, p. 332-333, no. 918, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

In 1804 the sitter married François Auguste Fleuriot, comte de Langle (1781-1861). One of their children collaborated with Eveline Schlumberger on an essay on Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (see Literature).

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