Jean-Baptiste-Jacques AUGUSTIN (Saint-Dié, 1759 - Paris, 1832) Portrait of the revolutionary general François Joseph Westermann (1751-1794) Watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, round form Signed and dated 'augustin / 1793' centre left Diameter: 7 cm CIC n° 2024/BE02090/CE Portrait of general François Joseph Westermann (1751-1794), watercolour and gum arabic on circular ivory, signed and dated, by J.-B. J. Augustin D.: 2.75 in. Provenance: Probably sale of the Cabinet d'Augustin, 1839, no. 111; Probably Eugène Tondu collection (circa 1802/11 - 1864); His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 April 1865, no. 792; Probably Joseph Henry Fitzhenry collection (1836-1913), London and Paris; Probably his sale after death, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Lair-Dubreuil, 20 February 1914, no. 329 (no date 1793); Probably Stadion-Warthausen collection, Vienna; Probably his sale, Vienna, Albert Kende, 14-15 December 1916, no. 452 (no date 1793); Boris Wilnitsky Gallery, Vienna; Galerie Jaegy Theoleyre, Paris; Pierre Jourdan-Barry Collection (1926-2016); Then by descent ; Private collection, Belgium Exhibitions : Probably Œuvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1906, n°42 Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin. Peintre en miniature, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Musée Pierre-Noël, 2010, no. 21 Bibliography: Simone de La Fontaine de Coincy, Un menage d'artistes. La vie et les oeuvres de J.-B. Jacques Augustin, s.l., 1930 (typed), p. 36. Bernd Pappe, Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin 1795-1832. Une nouvelle excellence dans l'art du portrait en miniature, Verona, 2015, p. 155 and 256, fig. 31 and no. 214. In the notebook he kept from his clientele, Augustin states that he painted two portraits of Westermann, one for 240 livres and the other for 300 livres (Augustin, carnet vert du Louvre, fol. 70 verso and fol. 74. recto). One of his portraits, which may be the miniature shown here, was put up for sale by his widow in 1839, under no. 111. Jean-Baptiste-Jacques AUGUSTIN (Saint-Dié, 1759 - Paris, 1832) In the notebook he kept from his clientele, Augustin states that he painted two portraits of Westermann, one for 240 livres and the other for 300 livres (Augustin, carnet vert du Louvre, fol. 70 verso and fol. 74. recto). One of his portraits, which may be the miniature shown here, was put up for sale by his widow in 1839, under no. 111.