An Early 18thC French School Oval Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Lady c.1700-20 sub-Architectural & Garden 1760 and later

1760 and later

the whole with a superb patination

the soldiers appearing to emerge by un-folding into a two rows of twenty five soldiers each

We have carried out some remedial work to the structural innards of the carcass such as to the drawer runners so that she now stands in completely useable condition

rococo was out and neo-classical was in

An Early 18thC French School Oval Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Lady c.1700-20 sub-Architectural & Garden 1760 and laterOrigin: French Period: Louis XIV Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1700 1720 Height: 30. 5 Width: 25 The beautiful large half length portrait in oval form of a Parisian Lady, painted in oils on canvas, wearing an intricate lace bejeweled bonnet, with drop earrings, and a diamond choker, to a turquoise and white lace Ottoman type dress, her hands folded and with a ruby ring and her face looking out to the viewer, the work unframed and surviving from the