Jean Gabriel Domergue, 1889 Bordeaux – 1962 Paris

THE COUNTESS RUSPOLI IN A VALUABLE CARRIAGE Oil on canvas. 74 x 92 cm. Signed and dated "Jean Gabriel Domergue 1921" lower right. In a magnificent frame. Against a moving blue, white and purple background, a magnificent carriage, gold-colored on the inside, through whose open door the view falls on the seated countess, with a wide long whitish skirt and a darker top with floral decoration. She has a wide décolleté, slender arms and long, delicate fingers and her delicate face, with almost closed eyes, looks slightly downwards. Painting in a rapid brushstroke by the painter known for his portraits of women. Domergue was a pupil of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) and made a name for himself above all as a portraitist of young ladies and graceful nudes.(1401483) (18) Jean-Gabriel Domergue, 1889 Bordeaux - 1962 Paris COUNTESS RUSPOLI IN PRECIOUS CARRIAGE Oil on canvas. 74 x 92 cm. Signed lower right and dated "Jean Gabriel Domergue 1921".