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Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (French, 1759-1832)
A lady in white dress with blue shawl
Signed and dated ‘Augustin / 1815.’ (lower left) and inscribed in pencil on the backing card ‘Par / Augustin / peintre du Cabinet du / Roi Louis XVIII / rue croix des Petits / champs No 25, / près de la Place des / Victoires à Paris.’
On ivory
Oval, 86 mm. high, rectangular gilt-bronze frame
A lady in white dress with blue shawl
Signed and dated ‘Augustin / 1815.’ (lower left) and inscribed in pencil on the backing card ‘Par / Augustin / peintre du Cabinet du / Roi Louis XVIII / rue croix des Petits / champs No 25, / près de la Place des / Victoires à Paris.’
On ivory
Oval, 86 mm. high, rectangular gilt-bronze frame
Provenance
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in Paris, 1 January 1933 (inv. nos. MD/0026 and 22).
Literature
Pappe 2015, p. 330, no. 898 (the provenance erroneous), illustrated.
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