"Gaston Simoes De Fonseca (1874-1943) Oil On Cardboard "portrait Of A Young Woman""
Oil on cardboard, portrait of a young woman reading, signed upper right. The frame is made of wood and gilded stucco. Gaston Simoes de Fonseca was born on October 16, 1874, in Rio de Janeiro and died on June 18, 1943, in Paris. He was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Tuileries.