Lot 125: A young lady, holding a small wooden handled scythe and cutting roses in her right hand, left hand holding a rose from a basket of picked roses on a stone ledge, in white dress, embroidered short sleeve border, red sash, pearl armlet worn on her

AUGUSTIN DUBOURG (FRENCH, 1758-1800) A young lady, holding a small wooden handled scythe and cutting roses in her right hand, left hand holding a rose from a basket of picked roses on a stone ledge, in white dress, embroidered short sleeve border, red sash, pearl armlet worn on her upper right arm, foliage wreath in her long powdered curling hair; tree and foliate background with mountainous landscape beyond indistinctly signed and dated 'Dubourg 1789' (mid-right) 3 3/16 in. (81 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount

In the present miniature, Dubourg was clearly inspired by the works of his first cousin Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin such as the portrait of Madame van Hée of 1790 (illustrated in P. Jean-Richard, Miniatures sur ivoire. Musée du Louvre. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, no. 11).