Lot 339: MADELEINE PAULINE AUGUSTIN, NEE DU CRUET (FRENCH, 1781-1865)

MADELEINE PAULINE AUGUSTIN, NEE DU CRUET (FRENCH, 1781-1865)
An officer, in red-piped blue military uniform with silver buttons, epaulettes and aiguillettes, wearing the badges of the Royal French Orders of St Louis and the Legion of Honour, red-lined blue cloak held with a silver chain
signed and dated 'Pauline Augustin 1827.' (lower right)
on ivory (artist's joins)
rectangular, 8 x 6 3/16 in. (202 x 158 mm.), gilt-metal frame with foliate surround

Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina, 1924, no. 63 (lent by Leo Schidlof).
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 20.
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 22.

Leo R. Schidlof (1886-1966) Collection, in 1924.
Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 November 1993, lot 23.