The Sage Dutch painting This magnificent wood painting represents

This magnificent wood painting represents a group of traditional Normandy thatched cottages made from a mixture of clay based soil

This is an academic portrait of an Italian bourgeois

Date: Mid 1800's

and went through various professions (including director of a bleach factory)

Overall size: 41

The Sage Dutch painting This magnificent wood painting representsOriginal antique portrait: French school of the XIXth century oil on canvas signed Victor Pierre Mnard (1857 1938). A portrait marked by a powerful chiaroscuro adding to the enigmatic figure of this model. Mnard, who is above all a portrait artist, succeeded here in offering us a moment that reflects an inner life, a detailed face, charged with emotion where the model seems to reveal something. About the artist: Victor Pierre Mnard (1857 1938) was