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Augustin Edouart Cut Silhouette
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Augustin Edouart Cut Silhouette

19th century
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Although best known for his individual silhouettes of people, Augustin Edouart (1788-1818) often cut large family conversation pieces that included the family dog. Being a perfectionist, he practised cutting dogs of all sizes pasting these experimental cuttings into scrapbooks to retain. These books were amongst his archive of work that was mostly all lost at sea when Edouart was shipwrecked off the coast of Guernsey in 1829. Some years ago a salvaged scrapbook came to light in a Parisian bookshop and this is the source of this unique cutting of a spaniel-type dog with a bushy tail.

The silhouette is presented in a ambrotype frame with a decorative gilt border and a new hanging ring. There is a stamp of authenticity within.

Framed Size: 65 x 78mm

Provenance: The Artist's Scrapbook

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Wigs on the Green has dated this Antique Cut Paper Silhouette to the 19th Century.

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SA1230040
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5021-c
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Although best known for his individual silhouettes of people, Augustin Edouart (1788-1818) often cut large family conversation pieces that included the family dog.
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Being a perfectionist, he practised cutting dogs of all sizes pasting these experimental cuttings into scrapbooks to retain.
Wigs on the Green

These books were amongst his archive of work that was mostly all lost at sea when Edouart was shipwrecked off the coast of Guernsey in 1829. Some years ago a salvaged scrapbook came to light in a Parisian bookshop and this is the source of this unique cutting of a spaniel-type dog with a bushy tail.

The silhouette is presented in a ambrotype frame with a decorative gilt border and a new hanging ring. There is a stamp of authenticity within.

Framed Size: 65 x 78mm

Provenance: The Artist's Scrapbook

Date of Manufacture

Wigs on the Green has dated this Antique Cut Paper Silhouette to the 19th Century.

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SA1230040
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5021-c
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Small portraiture of character & historical interest

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A nineteenth-century cut paper silhouette portrait of a dog set inside a gold decorative slip and framed by a burgundy leather surround with a brass hanging ring.
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Archive I A nineteenth-century cut paper silhouette portrait of a dog set inside a gold decorative slip and framed by a burgundy leather surround with a brass hanging ring.

Augustin Edouart Cut Silhouette

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A nineteenth-century cut paper silhouette portrait of a dog set inside a gold decorative slip and framed by a burgundy leather surround with a brass hanging ring.
Augustin Edouart Cut Silhouette
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A nineteenth-century cut paper silhouette portrait of a dog set inside a gold decorative slip and framed by a burgundy leather surround with a brass hanging ring.
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A cut paper silhouette portrait is an art form popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, created by cutting the profile of a person or animal out of black paper or card using scissors or trade knives, then mounting it against a lighter contrasting background.

Nineteenth-century silhouettes typically used thin black paper or card mounted onto cream cardstock, framed within ebonised papier-mache, wood, or leather mounts, often trimmed with gilded metal slips and topped with brass suspension rings.

Authentic period silhouettes exhibit fine scissor or knife marks around the edges, natural age-related toning or foxing to the backing paper, and period-correct frame construction including hand-cast brass hanging rings and wire fasteners.

Antique silhouettes work exceptionally well arranged in gallery wall groupings alongside other small works of art, or hung individually in narrow wall areas such as hallway piers, library alcoves, or flanking a mantelpiece.

Keep paper silhouettes away from direct sunlight and sources of heat or humidity to prevent fading and paper degradation. If reframing, use acid-free backing materials and museum-grade UV-filtering glass.
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