Jean - Baptiste Jacques AUGUSTIN (Saint Dié 1759 - Paris 183 - Lot 57

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Jean - Baptiste Jacques AUGUSTIN (Saint Dié 1759 - Paris 183 - Lot 57
Jean - Baptiste Jacques AUGUSTIN (Saint Dié 1759 - Paris 1832) Portrait of a man in an olive frock coat Gouache and watercolor on ivory Diameter: 6.5 cm Signed and dated lower right Augustin / 1796 Provenance: Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 26, 2001, no. 6. Bibliography B. Pappe, Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin 1759 - 1832, une nouvelle excellence dans l'art du portrait en miniature, n° 261, reproduced fig. 40 Considered one of the best miniaturists of his generation, Augustin studied at Nancy with Jean-Baptiste Claudot and probably with Jean Girardet. He settled in Paris in 1780 and quickly became famous in the field of miniature painting, thanks to his very smooth and meticulous brushstrokes. He succeeded in creating an important clientele among the nobility as well as among the bourgeoisie and later among the revolutionaries. He survived all regimes. Official painter of the imperial court, he was appointed ordinary painter of the cabinet of King Louis XVIII in 1814. He participated in the Salon from 1791 to 1831.
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