Lot 33: Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (French, 1759-1832)

JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832) Thérèse Jeanne Marie Hortense de Tardieu, Marquise de Maleissye, née de Luc (d. 1826), in white dress and red shawl Signed and dated ‘Augustin. / 1814’ (lower left) and inscribed on the backing card ‘Madame de Maleyssie [sic]’ On ivory 78 mm diam., square gilt-bronze frame

PROVENANCE: Maxime Hébert (1853-1945) Collection, Paris. With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 15 May 1954 (inv. nos. MD/0591 and 36).