François Dumont
Portrait of Pierre Simon Benjamin Duvivier

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Artist François Dumont (French, 1751–1831)French, 1751–1831

CultureFrench

Titles

Portrait of Pierre Simon Benjamin Duvivier

Date1798 or 1799

MediumWatercolor on ivory; gilt-metal (frame)

Dimensions3 5/16 × 3 5/16 in. (8.4 × 8.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Cecily E. Horton

Object number2023.580

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Department

Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Object Type

MINIATURE (PORTRAITS)

ProvenanceHans E. Backer; Ernst Holzscheiter, London, 15 April 1951 (inv. nos. MD/0514 and 188); [Christie's London, 4 Jul 2018, Lot 6]; [The Limner Company, London]; Cecily E. Horton, , Houston, July 2023; given to MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition HistoryParis, Salon, 1800, no. 135 (part)
Geneva, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Chefs-d’œuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 136
Zurich, Haus am Rechberg, 1957-58
Zurich, Haus am Rechberg, 1961

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed and dated in brown paint, right center: Dumont / f. l’an. 8.
Verso: [inaccessible]

Recto: Signed in brown paint, right center: Dumont [print]

Verso: Label in blue pen, top left corner: MD / 0514
Verso: Label in brown ink, diagonal from bottom left to top right corner: prezze - Simon Bejmain - Duvivier, Ne' a Paris en 1730 / graveur du Roy, et graveur gèneral des Monnaies / pendant le regne de Louis XVI, peint par François Dumont / en 1799 [underlined] [cursive]

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