Bouvier Miniature portrait of a small boy in a beige jacket with a black and white striped yellow vest and an open white collar. Signed "Bouvier" diagonally ascending lower right. Watercolor and gum arabic on ivory. D. 6.4 cm. In a gilt copper mount. Around 1820. Two miniatures by this artist are in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva. See exhibition catalog L'âge d'or du petit portrait, Bordeaux, Geneva and Paris, 1995/1996, p. 223, cat. nos. 77 and 78, where the name "Agnès Rose Bouvier" is suggested to identify this artist. Provenance: London, Christie's, auction "Important Portrait Miniatures" on April 30, 1996, lot 150 with illus., hammer price 800 GBP plus 15 % buyer's premium.

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