Property from the collection 🍸of the late Dr Erika Polh-Ströher (1919-2016)
JEAN BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN | A STUDY OF THREE OF THE MARQUIS DE BOMBELLES' CHILDREN AT PLAY, CIRCA 1784
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Property from the collection ܫof 🎀the late Dr Erika Polh-Ströher (1919-2016)
JEAN BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN
Saint-Dié 1759 - 1832 Paris
A STUDY OF THREE OF THE MARQUIS DE BOMBELLES' CHILDREN AT PLAY, CIRCA 1784
Pencil, gilt-metal frame, circular
framed: 100 mm Diam.
93 mm Diam.
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By descent to Madeleine Pauline Augustin (1781-1865), the artist's wifಞe;
to her niece, Jus﷽ti𒈔ne-Henriette Cornut de La Fontaine de Coincy;
Alfred Cornut de La Fontaine de Coincy;
sale, Ge🤪neva, Christie's, 10 November 1987, lot 261;
where acquired by the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (🐟1919-2🧸016)
M. Friesen, Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880, Darmstadt, 2001, p.396, no. 21
B. Pappe, Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin 1759-1832, une nouvelle excellence dans l'art du portrait en miniature, Verona, 2015, p. 235, no. 28
In this drawing Augustin depicts the three sons of Marc Marie, Marquis de Bombelles (1744-1822) and his wife Angelique Charlotte de Mackau (1762-1800). Their eldest, Louis Philippe (1780-1843) became a diplomat, the middle son, Charles-René (1784-1856), joined the army and married - morganatically - Napoleon's widow, Marie Louis, Duchess of Parma, while the younge💯st, Henri François (1789-1850), served under Emperor Franz Joseph at the Austrian court.
This drawing is a preparatory study for a miniature of the same subject that was formerly part of the collections of James A. de Rothschild of Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire.1
For further inform𒊎ation on Dr Erika Polh-Ströher please see lot 244.
1. B. Pappe, Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin 1759-1832, une nouvelle excellence dans l'art du portrait en miniature, Verona, 2015, p. 235, no. 29