Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
MADELEINE PAULINE AUGUSTIN, NEE DU CRUET (FRENCH, 1781-1865)
Lot 339 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

MADELEINE PAULINE AUGUSTIN, NEE DU CRUET (FRENCH, 1781-1865)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 6,875

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MADELEINE PAULINE AUGUSTIN, NEE DU CRUET (FRENCH, 1781-1865)
An officer, in red-piped blue military uniform with silver buttons, epaulettes and aiguillettes, wearing the badges of the Royal French Orders of St Louis and the Legion of Honour, red-lined blue cloak held with a silver chain
signed and dated 'Pauline Augustin 1827.' (lower right)
on ivory (artist's joins)
rectangular, 8 x 6 3/16 in. (202 x 158 mm.), gilt-metal frame with foliate surround

Leo R. Schidlof (1886-1966) Collection, in 1924.
Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 November 1993, lot 23.

Specialist note

Pauline was the wife of Jean-Baptiste Augustin and, according to Leo Schidlof, 'She was the best pupil of her husband and his collaborator, and came to adopt his style to such an extent that it is often impossible to distinguish the work of each' (L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, I, p. 54).