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Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (French, 1759-1832)
A lady in white and purple dress, seated in an interior, holding a book
Signed and dated ‘augustin / 1793.’ (lower left)
On ivory
76 mm. diam., ormolu frame
A lady in white and purple dress, seated in an interior, holding a book
Signed and dated ‘augustin / 1793.’ (lower left)
On ivory
76 mm. diam., ormolu frame
Provenance
An Austrian Private Collection; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 1 September 1937, lot 732.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0146 and 27).
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0146 and 27).
Exhibited
This or another version, Geneva 1956, no. 13, on an ivory box.
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