"Important Oil Painting On Canvas Representing The Assumption Of Md Serpillon Painted By E Mazaroz"
Important oil painting on canvas representing the Assumption of Madame Serpillon surrounded by her family in the spirit of 17th century paintings such as the coronation or the Assumption of the Virgin. Signed and dated lower right: E Mazaroz pinx 1843. Beautiful original frame in wood and gilded stucco, painting with many details and very good quality of execution, in excellent condition. Probably a commissioned painting offered by a pious family or a patron for a church, a convent or a family chapel. Total dimensions: H 160 x W 120 cm Dimensions visible: H 137 x W 98 cm At the bottom of the frame an explanatory plaque from the time of the painting explains this work, it is noted: The (to be defined) Madame Serpillon born Florin de Montpatey left her family for heaven where her virtues, her faith placed her she is under the figure of the Virgin, her children, grandchildren seeing her there raise. Mesdames de Verchère and the man of Mercey in the form of two angels, her granddaughters Clotilde and Francine, the man of Mercey in that of two cherubs who support the crown, her grandsons de Verchère and Serpillon in that of two angels and her desperate husband in that of the old man whom his son supports. Both follow with their eyes the object of their regrets and their tenderness.