Lot 121
  • 121

Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin
  • Portrait of a gentleman
  • signed l.l.: Augustin: / 1795..
  • 5.6 cm.; 2 1/4 in. diam.
wearing a blue coat, a blue-edged cream waistcoat and a knotted white cravat, gilt-metal and blue enamel frame

Provenance

Joseph von Flesch, Vienna;
Marwitz Collection, Freiburg, 1932;
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Zurich, 15 November 1977, lot 55

Condition

Ivory ground. Overall the work is in very fine condition. There is some surface dust, particularly on the coat. Further, there is minor fine crazing of the paint surface in the sky, lower right, and a similar smaller area along the edge, centre left. This area may have been re-touched. The frame has a card backboard.
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