François DUMONT (Lunéville, 1751 - Paris, 1831) Portrait of a young woman, said to be Sophie Arnould, in a purple silk dress at the harpsichord Watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, round form Signed 'hall' lower right Diameter: 7.2 cm CIC n° 2024/BE01333/CE A white enamelled gold and silver lamp post and easel frame bearing the hallmark of the Parisian silversmith Adolphe Chadouteau. Portrait of a young lady called Sophie Arnould, watercolour and gum arabic on circular ivory, by F. Dumont D.: 2.83 in. Provenance: Allègre Collection ; Succession of M. Allègre, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Pillet, 16 May 1872, n° 266 (as Portrait de Sophie Arnould par Hall, sold for 2 120 francs or); Collection de M. Vincent, Paris, sold en bloc by his son Prosper Vincent to Félix Panhard on 2 April 1883 for 210,000 gold francs; Félix Panhard Collection (1842-1891), Paris; By descent to his nephew Hippolyte Panhard; Remained in the Panhard family; Panhard sale; Paris, Palais Galliera, 5 December 1975, no. 82 (sold for 33,000 frs) ; Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Delorme Collin du Bocage, 16 December 2009, no. 103 (sold for €11,000); Pierre Jourdan-Barry Collection (1926-2016); Then by descent; Private collection, Belgium Exhibitions: Société de protection des Alsaciens et Lorrains demeurés français, au profit de la colonisation de l'Algérie par les Alsaciens-Lorrains, Paris, Palais de la Présidence du Corps législatif, 1874, no. 659/11, (loan from Mr Vincent) Portraits of the Century, Société Philanthropique, Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1883 Bibliography: Alphonse Maze-Sencier, Le Livre des collectionneurs, Paris, 1885, p. 575 (as a portrait of Sophie Arnould by Hall). J.-E. Darmon, Dictionnaire des peintres miniaturistes sur vélin, parchemin, ivoire et écaille, Paris, 1927, p. 59 (verbo "Hall"). Pierrette Jean-Richard, Inventaire des miniatures sur ivoire conservées au Cabinet des dessins, Musée du Louvre et Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, under no. 321. (Traces of humidity on the right) Related works : Another version, signed by Dumont in the Cleveland Museum of Art published in Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951, reproduced pl. XXVIII, no. 60, p. 34 A copy in the Louvre, RF 219 (after Hall) published in Inventaire des miniatures sur ivoire conservées au Cabinet des dessins, Musée du Louvre et Musée d'Orsay, by P. Jean-Richard, Paris, 1994, under no. 321. François DUMONT (Lunéville, 1751 - Paris, 1831) Related works : Another version, signed by Dumont in the Cleveland Museum of Art published in Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951, reproduced pl. XXVIII, n° 60, p. 34 A copy in the Louvre, RF 219 (after Hall) published in Inventaire des miniatures sur ivoire conservées au Cabinet des dessins, Musée du Louvre et Musée d'Orsay, by P. Jean-Richard, Paris, 1994, under no. 321.