Attributed to Jacques-Augustin-Catherine... - Lot 28 - Ader

Attributed to Jacques-Augustin-Catherine PAJOU (Paris 1766 - 1828 )Portrait of Marguerite Gérard with her catBlack stone. At the bottom center of the original mounting is inscribed the following quatrain: "Such is GERARD, that Love and the Arts have formed. Universal praise, sitot that one named it.... But what a contrast! a Cat! can it be appropriate to him? It is the bird of Venus that she should hold. " Diameter: 17,3 cm. Probable provenance: - Augustin-Désiré Pajou (1800-1878), painter and son of the artist . - His inventory after his death, April 12, 1878, Me Breuillaud, Paris, without number. - Joseph-Auguste Pajou (1824-1885), painter and son of the previous one. - Louise Marie-Saint-Germain, born Pajou (1855-1940), daughter of the previous one. - His inventory after his death, 1940 : P. Nusbaumer, Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou, 1766-1828, Peintre d'histoire et de portraits, 1997, No. 117 of the catalog raisonné, p. 108 and p. 178.