Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
Lot 436 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)

Closed28 November 2012

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JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
Louis Marie, Marquis d'Estourmel (1744-1823), in lilac silk coat, frilled white cravat, powdered wig worn en queue
signed and dated 'augustin. 1790' (lower left)
on ivory
2 13/16 in. (71 mm.) diam., ormolu frame with tied ribbon surmount

E. Warneck Collection; part I, Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 11 April, 1924, lot 20 (on the cover of a gold-mounted blonde tortoiseshell box).
Sotheby's, Monte Carlo, 25 June 1976, lot 392.

Specialist note

For another portrait of the same sitter after the present miniature, see P. Jean-Richard, op. cit. no. 36, illustrated p. 44. It is due to this copy that the identification of the sitter as Marquis d'Estourmel has been revealed.