Portrait Of A Young Woman From The Belle époque

Portrait of an Elegant Woman, oil on oval canvas.
Original giltwood frame.
Circa 1890/1910.
Framed dimensions: 80 x 59 cm.
Very good condition.

Portrait of a young woman in front of a backdrop of green plants. She is likely standing in a greenhouse or conservatory, a setting frequently depicted in painting since the reign of Napoleon III. She is smiling, wearing a hat and a magnificent silver-white satin dress, rendered with great virtuosity, which lends the sitter remarkable grace and worldly ease.
The portrait evokes the work of portrait painters active between 1890 and 1910, at the crossroads of late academicism and modern sensibility, in the spirit of the grand society portraits of the late 19th century, such as those by the great painters of the upper middle class like Boldini and Thomas Sargent.