GUERIN Jean-Urbain (1761-1836), PORTRAIT OF Mme AUBIN, MINIATURE CIRCA 1800
Important miniature by Jean-Urbain Guérin, signed to the left : J. Guerin, and whose identity of the siter was found during the dismantling : Mrs Aubin's portrait. The Empire miniature , is characteristic of the artist's works of that time. We can move closer to the miniature of the Louvre (inventory RF162), " portrait of sat woman ". The very particular touch of Guérin, the way it pinks the white muslin on the shoulder to reveal complexions by transparency, the way it paints the chair, the lights of gouache in hair ...everything is exactly similar to it. It allows us to place this beautiful portrait in the hinge between the productions painted before Revolution, by the artist and the portraits whom he will make by 1830, these two periods having at his hand, very different pictorial techniques.TECHNIQUE:
Watercolor and gouache on ivory, protected under a convex glass
ARSTIST:
GUERIN Jean-Urbain (1761-1836)
SIGNED:
J. Guerin
FRAME :
Original ormulu frame chiselled and gilded. Marie-louise of red velvet of the time (visible inside) has been replaced later by a green velvet .
PORTRAIT SIZE:
7,5x6cm
FRAME SIZE:
11,5x10cm
DESCRIPTION :
CONDITION:
Very good original condition. Original glass. A tiny crack of few millimetres under signature
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Bénézit, Lespinasse, Blattel, Schidlof, Lemoine Bouchard, Henri Bouchot, François Pupil, Bernd Pappe