Duvieux, Marie Adelaide - portrait of three ladies

This miniature portrait is unsigned, but has kindly been attributed by an expert visitor to the website as by Marie Adelaide Duvieux (nee Landragin) (1770-?). She exhibited under Landragin in 1791 and 1793, but in 1795 under Duvieux and hence seems to have married.

Schidlof comments "Without being a first class artist, she was a miniaturist of talent, who did expressive and well drawn works. She executed the faces finely with brown shadows. Her way of painting the hair with little touches of white gouache is characteristic. Works by this artist are found very rarely." There is one miniature by her in the Louvre catalogue.

One reason for her apparent rarity may be due to mis-attributions. The expert visitor has even found and kindly provided, a previous reference to this miniature in the Schidlof sale of 6-7 June 1921, where it was featured on the cover, as shown in the image here and was being sold from the collection of Sigmund Mandl.

In the catalogue, the miniature was lot 151 where it was described as by Antoine Laurent (1763-1832). However, it is understood more recent scholarship has now attributed the portrait to Marie Duvieux.

The sitters are unknown. 289