Very fine Empire miniature showing a young woman in unfastened yellow tunic, embedded by a girl. Sat on an neoclassical blue armchair , on a terrace, we can distinguish far off a palace at the top of a cliff where from falls a waterfall.

This impressive miniature, undoubtedly by a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, is inspired by the portrait of Charlotte Marie Françoise Roberjot-Lartigue with his daughter, painted by Augustin in 1793. This composition, itself taken back by Augustin to Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's self-portrait with her daughter. this painting had such a success, that number of young mothers ordered their portraits inspired by it.

Augustin himself supplies several versions , always with a different feminine model, some completely of his hand (in 1792 and 1793), others in association with his studio as the miniature of the Pierpont-Morgan collection, where the young Lady is represented with an Empire hairstyle and dated  January 1803.

It is of this period when is dated our miniature which, if it resumes the whole composition, we can discover another feminine face with another  hairstyle.

Proof that Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's self-portrait, real hymn in the Love mother-daugther, remained fifteen years after its creation, a model.