Lot 430: FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)

FRANÇOIS DUMONT (FRENCH, 1751-1831)
Madame Sauveige, seated in a landscape, her arms around a young girl in her lap: Madame Sauveige in lace-bordered white dress and lace bonnet in her curling hair; the young girl in white dress with white ribbon in her short dark hair; foliate background with a lake and buildings beyond
signed 'Dumont' (mid-left)
on ivory
2 7/8 in. (73 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame

The artist's second fee book (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fondation Jacques Doucet, MS. 104), folio 11 (between 10 and 20 January 1790): 'Mde Sauveige et une jeune Dlle 35' [louis d'or].

Christie's, London, 28 May 2002, lot 29.