JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
A young lady, seated, in décolleté white silk and lilac muslin dress, revealing right breast, wearing gold armlet and bracelet, holding a letter in her right hand inscribed 'Italie en 1800', her left arm resting on a burnt-orange Cashmere shawl draped over the back of her elaborately carved sofa, a harp in the background
signed 'Augustin' (mid-right)
on ivory
3 1/16 in. (78 mm.) diam., gold mount set on the cover of a tortoiseshell-lined ivory bonbonnière
JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
A young lady, seated, in décolleté white silk and lilac muslin dress, revealing right breast, wearing gold armlet and bracelet, holding a letter in her right hand inscribed 'Italie en 1800', her left arm resting on a burnt-orange Cashmere shawl draped over the back of her elaborately carved sofa, a harp in the background
signed 'Augustin' (mid-right)
on ivory
3 1/16 in. (78 mm.) diam., gold mount set on the cover of a tortoiseshell-lined ivory bonbonnière
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