Live Auction 1126Centuries of Style
JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
Lot 108

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

Closed4 June 2013

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GBP 3,750

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JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
A young lady, in décolleté gold-bordered white dress, gem-set gold belt, curling hair dressed with a mauve ribbon tied in a bow
on ivory
2½ in. (65 mm.) diam., gilt-bronze frame with scroll and pellet border and inner leaf border

Specialist note

Two similar signed and dated miniatures by Augustin, painted around 1794/1795, are illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin. Peintre en miniature, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, musée Pierre-Noël, 2010, p. 49, nos. 25 and 26. For a further similar miniature, signed and dated 1795, see Miniatures from the Bruni Tedeschi Collection, Turin, 2005, no. 12.