Lot n° 26
Estimation :
3000 - 5000
EUR
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: 51 040EUR
François DUMONT (1751-1831)
Presumed portrait of Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818)
Rare wooden candy box mounted and lined with 750 thousandths gold, decorated in brown Martin varnish, the borders chiselled with foliage, the lid decorated with a superb round miniature portrait painted on ivory showing a painter halfway up, three-quarters right with her head turned to the left, holding her palette in front of a blue floral vase mounted in gilded bronze, signed lower left Dumont. Good general condition, wood cracks.
Paris, 1798-1809.
The miniature of the 1780s.
Gross weight: 114.9 g
H: 3.2 cm - D: 8.5 cm
SIGNATURE POSSIBLY RESTORED
Related works:
- A miniature portrait of Anne Vallayer-Coster by Dumont dated 1804 is in the Cleveland Museum of Art, inv.
1943.639. She also holds a blue flowered vase mounted in gilt bronze.
- A large miniature portrait of Anne Vallayer-Coster by Dumont dated 1769 (location unknown) is illustrated in Anne Vallayer-Coster, painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, Erik Kahng, 2002, fig 4.
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