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French school; first third of the eighteenth century. "Portrait of a lady". Oil on canvas. Relined. It presents faults and losses in the pictorial surface and in the frame. Needs consolidation. Measurements: 116 x 95.5 cm; 134 x 113 cm (frame). Female portrait in which the author portrays a middle-aged lady, who wears a sumptuous dress with a wide neckline adorned with white lace in the upper part of the corset. The smooth qualities of the skin and the slight flush of the cheeks harmonize with the rest, leaving no room for detail with precise pictorial touches. The dark background enhances the figure and the elegance of her attire, the large drapery usual in this type of compositions adds sumptuousness to the scene while adding depth and three-dimensionality to the space in which the protagonist stands. The lady looks directly at the viewer with a faint smile, but without losing a regal and haughty attitude, even though she is smiling slightly. In an apparently spontaneous gesture, she flirtatiously holds one of the gold ornaments of her dress. This attitude shows the artist's interest in capturing the personality of the sitter. The portrait genre was especially popular during the Rococo period. French painters such as Fragonard, Vigée Lebrun, Boucher, Watteau? gave the genre refined cadences with their iridescent touches of color. This female portrait is ascribed to the rococo taste for extracting the right qualities from the garments and endowing the flesh tones with an ivory delicacy. The lady rests her right arm on a velvet cushion. The painter skillfully captures the materials and the garments: the navy blue velvet of the dress, the pink of the satin, the lace and trimmings, the powdered headdress in the aristocratic fashion of the time and the pearl and gold appliqués hanging from her dress. It presents faults and losses in the pictorial surface and in the frame. Needs consolidation.

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French school; first third of the eighteenth century. "Portrait of a lady". Oil on canvas. Relined. It presents faults and losses in the pictorial surface and in the frame. Needs consolidation. Measurements: 116 x 95.5 cm; 134 x 113 cm (frame). Female portrait in which the author portrays a middle-aged lady, who wears a sumptuous dress with a wide neckline adorned with white lace in the upper part of the corset. The smooth qualities of the skin and the slight flush of the cheeks harmonize with the rest, leaving no room for detail with precise pictorial touches. The dark background enhances the figure and the elegance of her attire, the large drapery usual in this type of compositions adds sumptuousness to the scene while adding depth and three-dimensionality to the space in which the protagonist stands. The lady looks directly at the viewer with a faint smile, but without losing a regal and haughty attitude, even though she is smiling slightly. In an apparently spontaneous gesture, she flirtatiously holds one of the gold ornaments of her dress. This attitude shows the artist's interest in capturing the personality of the sitter. The portrait genre was especially popular during the Rococo period. French painters such as Fragonard, Vigée Lebrun, Boucher, Watteau? gave the genre refined cadences with their iridescent touches of color. This female portrait is ascribed to the rococo taste for extracting the right qualities from the garments and endowing the flesh tones with an ivory delicacy. The lady rests her right arm on a velvet cushion. The painter skillfully captures the materials and the garments: the navy blue velvet of the dress, the pink of the satin, the lace and trimmings, the powdered headdress in the aristocratic fashion of the time and the pearl and gold appliqués hanging from her dress. It presents faults and losses in the pictorial surface and in the frame. Needs consolidation.

Estimate 3 500 - 4 000 EUR
Starting price 2 500 EUR

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