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FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)
Lot 406

FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 22,500

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FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)
A young lady, standing in a landscape holding an artist's folio under her left arm, a paint brush in her right hand, wearing a pale yellow silk dress with blue sash and blue ribbon in her dark hair, white gauze fichu; a view of Tivoli in the background
Signed 'Dumont' and later 'Dumont / f.' (in brown, lower right)
On ivory
Rectangular, 134 x 103 mm., ormolu frame

Arthur Georges Veil-Picard (1854-1944) Collection, Paris.

Specialist note

The present large-format miniature by Dumont can be compared to a similar work, signed and dated 1793, depicting a seated lady with a paint brush in her hand, in the Wallace Collection, London (see S. Duffy and C. Vogtherr, Miniatures in the Wallace Collection, London, 2010, no. 26, illustrated in colour p. 80, erroneously identified as Marguerite Gérard. Dumont depicted female musicians as well as artists. One example, Madame de Saint-Just d'Aucourt en Sapho with a lute in a woodland landscape, and a signed portrait of Demoiselles Flamand with a harp and a harpischord, are in the Louvre (see P. Jean-Richard, Inventaire des Miniatures sur ivoire conservées au Cabinet des Dessins, Musée du Louvre et Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, nos. 190 and 200).