ARTIST

Auguste Edouart

1789–1861 · France

Cut 5,000 silhouettes in Edinburgh alone—with just scissors and paper.

ABOUT

Auguste Amant Constant Fidèle Edouart (1789–1861) was a French-born portrait artist who worked in England, Scotland and the United States in the 19th century. He specialised in silhouette portraits. == Biography == Born in Dunkerque, he left France in 1814, and established himself in London, where he began his career making portraits from hair. In 1825, he began work as a silhouette portraitist, taking full-length likenesses in profile by cutting out black paper with scissor…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Kate and Harry Lucas, playing with a dog and a bird 1826 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Countess de la Barte 1800 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Second Lieutenant R. A. Wainwright 1814 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Louisa Rice and Miss Anna Maria Rice 1820 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Group of three Indians in a war dance 1825 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art A Winnebago Indian 1825 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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