Louis Georges Brillouin "the Ball" Oil On Panel 19th

Very lively scene of a musical and dancing party on a stone staircase: the orchestra descends joyfully followed by couples flirting happily. Oil on panel, neatly marked at the bottom right, exhibition number at the bottom left. Size with old frame to be reviewed 43 x 54 cm, panel 32 x 44.5 cm Louis Georges Brillouin, born on April 23, 1817 in Saint-Jean-d'Angély and died on November 22, 1893 in Saint-Martin-lès-Melle, is a French painter. A student of Martin Drölling and Louis-Nicolas Cabat, he exhibited at the Salon from 1843 to 1893. He also exhibited four genre scenes at the Brussels Salon of 1866: Gambling Scene, The Gazette, Hunting Rendezvous and The Card Game, for which he won a gold medal. He won a third medal in Paris in 1874. He was a member and reporting secretary of the committee of the Association of Painters.