708 - DUPUY (enamel artist active from at least 1803 to 1819)

DUPUY (enamel artist active from at least 1803 to 1819) "Portrait of a dark-haired woman in a half-length pose facing slightly to the right, wearing a gray dress, a lace collar, and a hoop earring" Enamel miniature on copper from the First Empire period, attributed and dated on the reverse of the mount as “Dupuis/1812.” The speckled gray counter-enamel has not been stripped for inspection. Diameter 53.80 mm. In a burnished wooden frame (cracked), dimensions 11 x 10.8 cm. (By the same artist, an enamel portrait of a man dated “Dupuy 1803” was sold at the Valérie Régis auction house in Deuil-la-Barre on Nov. 26, 2019, lot no. 146; another dated 1819, at Bonhams London on Jan. 21, 2007, lot 136). Nathalie LEMOINE BOUCHARD