Details
FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)
Mme Audouy, wearing a lilac dress, blue flowers in her hair, holding her baby daughter on her lap, seated on a scroll-backed chair; interior background with a clock
signed and dated 'Dumont f. l'an 3' (mid-right)
on ivory
3 in. (75 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame, in fitted red leather case with gilt edging, stamped ‘DUMONT’ on the cover in gilt lettering
Provenance
With S.J. Phillips, London.
Greta Shield Heckett (1899-1976) Collection, Pittsburgh, Pa.; part I, Sotheby's, Monaco, 4 May 1977, lot 64.
Literature
The artist's second fee book (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fondation Jacques Doucet, MS. 104), folio 23 (in 1794/95, ‘La Cne audouy et sa fille, 500’ [francs]).
T. Holck Colding, ‘Miniature- og emaille-maleri’, special print of Salomonsen Leksikon-Tidsskrift, no. 12, 1955, illustrated. fig. 10.
T. Holck Colding, Cornelius Høyer 1741-1804, Copenhagen, 1961, illustrated pl. XIX.
P. Cabanne, Guide du Connoisseur, Paris, 1978, p. 296.
A. Darmon, ‘L’art de la miniature: le grand siècle’, Arts et Valeurs, no. 12, March 1990, p. 42, illustrated in colour.
Exhibited
Pittsburgh, Pa., Carnegie Institute, Four Centuries of Portrait Miniatures from the Heckett Collection, 1954, no. 62, illustrated on the catalogue front cover and pl. XXXII.
Special notice
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