Lot 426: FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)

FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)
A young gentleman, seated in an interior at his desk, in plum-coloured coat, white frilled cravat and cuffs, powdered wig and black wig-bag, on a blue grey-upholstered wooden chair, a quill in his right hand, a musical score in his left; bust and bookcase in background
signed 'Dumont f.' (lower right)
on ivory
3 in. (76 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame with stamped foliate surround, the turquoise silk reverse stamped in gilt lettering 'DUMONT PORTRAIT DE PICCINI'

Paris, Société Philanthropique, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Portraits du siècle, 1883.
Paris, Art au XVIIIe siècle, 1883.
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Oeuvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle, 1906, no. 157 (as 'le comte de Montmorin?').

H. Bouchot, La miniature française 1750-1825, Paris, 1910, p. 123 (as presumably the portrait of M. de Montmorin, 1787).

The celebrated collection of Mr Vincent, Paris, sold en bloc by his only son Prosper Vincent to Félix Panhard, on 2 April 1883, for 210,000 Gold Francs.
Félix Panhard (1842-1891), Paris.
His nephew Hippolyte Panhard.
Thence by family descent until the sale of the Panhard Collection, part I, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 5 December 1975, lot 50 (as 'Portrait d'un homme de lettres ou d'État').