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Portrait of an actress, Louis DESMAREST, circa 1890-1900

$23,621.12
£17,783.09
€20,000
CA$32,539.65
A$36,442.35
CHF 19,015.02
MX$445,127.67
NOK 241,926.42
SEK 228,044.64
DKK 152,242.71

About the Item

Oil on canvas probably representing a theater actress in Antiquity. She seems to be wearing a staff and a mask of Hercules wearing a lion's head, a rich necklace with a Medusa head around her neck. Signed lower left L.DESMAREST, circa 1890-1900. Louis DESMAREST is known as a portrait painter, and it is with this genre that he exhibited one at the Salon of 1873. Student of Gosse, Barrias, Cambon, Blanc, and Jules Breton at the Beaux-Arts. French School. Bénézit, Volume III, p.525. Needs cleaning, very nice presence. 150x102 with the frame.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 59.06 in (150 cm)Width: 40.16 in (102 cm)Depth: 3.94 in (10 cm)
  • Style:
    Napoleon III (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1880
  • Condition:
  • Seller Location:
    PARIS, FR
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU8645245153212

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