AUGUSTIN AMANT CONSTANCE FIDELE EDOUART (FRENCH 1789 - 1861),
SILHOUETTES IN THE DRAWING ROOM
paper on watercolour and ink on paper, signed "Aug Edouart Fecit" and dated 1832
32cm x 40cm
Framed and under glass.
Provenance: Property of Lady Goodwin.
Note: Augustin Edouart was the most prolific silhouette artist of his day. Born in Dunkirk, he served in the Napoleonic Wars and came to England in 1814. Edouart travelled around the country extensively and spent three years in Edinburgh, cutting the silhouettes of nearly every man and woman who had even the slightest claim to fame.
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