Constant Freiherr Byon, Two Rococo Ladies in a Salon. Probably late 19th century. Constant Freiherr Byon? 1882 Vienna - last mention 1917 Oil on canvas. Signed "Byon" on the lower right. In a neo-rococo frame with openwork, curved corner cartouches with leaf and flower ornaments. It could also be Constant Freiherr Byon, an artist's pseudonym. Newly varnished. Margins pasted all around with masking tape. Frame with broken, partially reglued corners, partly with repairs. Measures: 43 x 37 cm, frame 64 x 46 cm. Constant Baron Byon ? 1882 Vienna - last Erw. 1917 Austrian genre and landscape painter. The artist's life data are not known.

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