Lot 4: François Dumont (French, 1751-1831)

FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831) Madame Campan, née Jeanne Louise Henriette Genet (1752-1822), in white dress and gold belt set with a belt buckle depicting the profles of King Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the Dauphin Signed ‘Dumont.’ (mid-right) On ivory Oval, 82 mm. high, silver and silver-gilt frame

PROVENANCE: Madame de Polès Collection; her sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Maître Lair-Dubreuil, Paris, 22 June 1927, lot 41 (as a presumed portrait of Marie- Antoinette. 25,000 FF), reofered in the sale of her estate entitled Succession de Madame de Polès, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Maître Ader, 18 November 1936, lot 122 (as a presumed portrait of Marie-Antoinette. 4,650 FF to Bensimon, Paris). With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 21 August 1952 (inv. nos. MD/0571 and 190).