Jean Marie REIGNIER (1815-1886) Profile of a woman surrounded by flowers, 1847 Gouache, signed and dated lower center 31 x 23 cm (at sight) Beautiful stuccoed and gilded wooden frame from the Hoeth House in Lyon Exhibitions/Bibliography: Retrospective of Lyon Art, International Exhibition of Lyon 1914 Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Portraitistes lyonnais 1800-1914, June-September 1986, n°136, reproduced and described in the exhibition catalog pages 220 and 221, by a text by Étienne Grafe Élisabeth Hardouin-Fugier and Étienne Grafe, Les Peintres de fleurs en France de Redouté à Redon, Paris, Édition de l'Amateur, 1992 reproduced page 139

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