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* Jacques Antoine Marie Lemoine Rouen 1751 - 1824 Paris
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Description
- Jacques Antoine Marie Lemoine
- three quarter length portrait of a young woman in a hat
- bears old attribution, lower right: L. Boilly/1790 (?);
black chalk and gray wash, with touches of red and white chalk; circular, made up on both sides
Provenance
C. Levesque;
sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 27 March 1914, lot 5 (as French School, late 18th Century);
sale London, Sotheby's, 8 July 1998, lot 83
sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 27 March 1914, lot 5 (as French School, late 18th Century);
sale London, Sotheby's, 8 July 1998, lot 83
Literature
N. Jeffares, 'Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, February 1999, p. 118, cat. no. 138, reproduced
Catalogue Note
Neil Jeffares dates this portrait to 1796 (see Literature). A similar portrait by Lemoine, signed and dated 1796, was sold Monaco, Sotheby's, 2 December 1989, lot 219, and another, a portrait of 'La Citoyenne Crétu', was exhibited at the Salon of 1796, and was subsequently in the Marius Paulme Collection (sold, Paris, Petit, 14 May 1929, lot 136, reproduced).