Portrait Of An Actress In Antiquity, Louis Desmarest, Circa 1890-1900

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Object description :

"Portrait Of An Actress In Antiquity, Louis Desmarest, Circa 1890-1900"

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.

Price: 14 000 €

Artist: Louis Desmarest
Period: 19th century
Style: Art Nouveau
Condition: Needs to be restored

Material: Oil painting
Width: 102
Height: 150

Reference: 1549471
Availability: In stock