An Early 19thc French School Oil on Board Portrait of a Lady c.1830 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Cuir de Cordoue

Cuir de Cordoue

There is some small loss to the gesso mouldings and flaking to the paint of which there is at least three layers

Scandinavian examples have chip carving

By the mid-1940s

preserved in formaldehyde within a cylindrical glass capsule

An Early 19thc French School Oil on Board Portrait of a Lady c.1830 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Cuir de CordoueOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Restauration Louis Philippe Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1820 40Height: 26Width: 18 (in frame)The beautifully depicted bust length portrait of a wealthy and attractive lady; probably in her twenties, painted in oils on board:, the sitter wearing a shoulder less Parisian blue dress, with a pretty and amicable face, voluptuous lips and rose tinted cheeks, wearing earrings and with her hair tied very much in the style of the period,