Antique Portrait Painting on Porcelain Plaque of a Child C1890

Antique Old Paris Porcelain Footed Portrait Vase with Hand Painted Reserve of Classical Mother & Child Scene, Gilt Highlights, Double Handles and Scroll Form Feet, C1890 Measures - ...

Antique Old Paris Porcelain Portrait Vase with Classical Figure, Double Handles and gilt Highlights, C1890 Measures - 8.25"h x 5"w x 3.25"d

Antique Old Paris Porcelain Hand Painted & Gilt Portrait Pitcher c1890 Measures - 9 3/4" x 7 3/8" x 6 1/2"

Antique Porcelain Portrait Plaque of Madonna & Child in Carved Hardwood Shadow Box Frame C1900. Measures - 13.75"H x 6.75"W x 6.75"D. This exquisite antique porcelain portrait...

Antique French hand-painted blue and gold Sèvres Porcelain plaque in frame, Circa 1890.

Antique porcelain plaque after Murillo Continental, 19th Century Height 28cm, width 19.5cm, depth 1cm This finely painted antique porcelain plaque depic...

A KPM Porcelain Plaque Depicting The Three Eldest Children of Charles I, After The Painting By Sir Anthony van Dyck. German, Circa 1890. The...

A Universal Exhibition Painting on Plaque after the painter James Bertrand Hand-painted Polychromed Painting on Porcelain Plaque Representing The Marguerite of Faust Signed Lower Left Titled on the reverse: “Marguerite Folle d’Après James Bertrand, Exposition Universelle 1889” After the painting by James Bertrand "The Marguerite of Faust" In its original frame Circa 1890 Faust and Marguerite Faust is tired of his old life and wants to kill himself. In a final burst of bitter anger, he invokes the devil. The devil appears in the guise of Mephistopheles and offers him a pact: he will grant him what he desires most in the world in exchange for his servitude. Faust asks him for youth and his help in seducing Marguerite. When he achieves his goal, bound by his contract with the devil, Faust abandons the latter who is waiting for her child. Filled with remorse, he returns to her, but kills Valentin, Marguerite's brother who tries to stop him, during a duel. He then tries to save the life of Marguerite who is imprisoned for infanticide, but he fails. Like this multifaceted character, the vocal treat-ment chosen by Gounod is differentiated: sometimes very lyrical with touching flights, sometimes very cold and repetitive to evoke her detachment from the world of men. Marguerite is young and naive. She lets herself be seduced by the charming and mysterious character of Faust and thus causes her own downfall as well as that of her family (her brother and her child will die). Hortense Richard (1858-1940) Marie Sophie Hortense Jeanne Schrenk was born in Charonne in 1858, the natural daughter of Louise Christine Frederika Schrenk and an unnamed father. Her mother, a German born in Stuttgart, officially recognized her in August 1879. A few days later, Hortense married his fellow painter Désiré Alfred Magne...