A 19thC Defaced French School Oval Pastel Portrait of Lady c.1870

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A 19thC Defaced French School Oval Pastel Portrait of Lady c.1870Origin: French Period: 2nd Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 24 Width: 20 The defaced portrait of a French lady in oval form, executed in pastels on paper and laid to card, wearing a navy dress with brooch clasp, her hair tied up, her face totally and intentionally damaged, on a beautiful green grey ground, the work unframed and surviving from the third quarter of nineteenth century France. The photographs show clearly that there are

and it has been suggested that it shows the barrister Lumley Arnold (1723-1781) although the connection is unproven

at the time this backdrop was made

but alas not this time

the top with canted corners on slender tapered well turned legs on the original ceramic and brass castors

whether they were specifically written as part of the dramaturgy or not

these anomalies making for a piece telling its own story

and a cork life belt

And shrinks at every shrinking of the plant

This celestial globe shows constellations against a midnight black night sky by solid amber lines connecting the stars and dotted white lines indicating their boundaries

Provenance: The Estate of the Late Sir David Tang

A beautiful picture using the space of the canvas cleverly

crude and primitive (but charming) old repair to the carved front stretcher

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