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Jean-Antoine Pinchon (Paris 1772-1850)
Lot 74

Jean-Antoine Pinchon (Paris 1772-1850)

A portrait of a woman, bust-length, wearing a shawl

Closed29 January 2009

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Jean-Antoine Pinchon (Paris 1772-1850)
A portrait of a woman, bust-length, wearing a shawl
signed and dated 'Pinchon 1806'
black chalk, stumping, heightened with white
9 3/8 x 7¼ in. (233 x 184 mm.)

A European Foundation; Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 1990, lot 14.

Specialist note

Pinchon was a student of François-André Vincent and Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Augustin who exhibited at the Salon between 1795 and 1844. He was the court painter for Empress Elizabeth of Russia, and many of his drawn portraits can be found in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.