Barbe Chardon is one of the  women who studied miniature painting with Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin in Paris. Her signed works are exceedingly rare. In this child portrait, the artist has worked in accordance with her teacher’s
<p>invention, the cabinet miniature, en grande miniature, a combination
of miniature and watercolour/gouache on paper, where, as in this
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work, the face is often painted on an inset ivory panel.
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Barbe Edmée Chardon</div>
Linn Ahlgren / Nationalmuseum