Francois Dumont, French, 1751 to 1831, oil on canvas painting depicting a portrait of a girl wearing a black suit with a white collar holding a putto figurine, circa the early 19th century. Francois Dumont was a French painter of portrait miniatures. Dumont was one of the three greatest miniature painters of France, painting portraits of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVIII and Charles X, and of almost all the important persons of his day. Collectible European Fine Art, Portraiture.