Lot 143
  • 143

JEAN BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN | Portrait of a lady

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin
  • Portrait of a lady
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame;signed lower left: Augustin. an 8. (1799/1800)
  • 74 mm. Diam.

Provenance

Mrs Teutsch, Nancy;
sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 10 February 1931, lot 145;
sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 22 March 1945, lot 64;
sale, Geneva, Christie's, 21 November 1979, lot 346

Literature

Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 397, no. 26;
Lemoine-Bouchard, 2008, p. 51, no. f.B;
Pappe, 2015, p. 279, no. 427, illust.

Condition

Colour very good. There is the most minor water staining around the margin, particularly between four and five o'clock and eight and nine o'clock (this does not interfere with the image).
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