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Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), Empress of the French and Queen of Italy by 
																	Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin

Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin

( French, 1759 - 1832 )

Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), Empress of the French and Queen of Italy

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Materials:

miniature, on ivory

Measurements:

2.52 in. (6.40 cm.) (height)

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Markings:

signed ‘augustin.’ (lower right)

Condition:

oval. ormolu mount in heavy rectangular gilt-metal frame with applied foliate urn and star spandrels at each corner

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, Peintre en miniature, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, musée Pierre-Noël, 2010, p. 60.

Provenance:

A reader to Empress Joséphine, thence by descent; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 November 1990, lot 133 (illustrated on the catalogue cover).

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