Portrait Of Mrs. Fould, Oil On Canvas, F. Flameng, 1903

Oil on canvas, signed and dated "François Flameng, 1903". Provenance: Château Beychevelle, Grand Cru Classé of Saint-Julien, in the Bordeaux region. From a family of German bankers with historical ties to the Fould bank, Marie-Louise Heine married in 1980 the politician Achille Fould. This exceptional woman put her fortune at the service of the sick and wounded of the Great War. Francois FLAMENG (Paris 1856-1923). Student of Cabanel, Hédouin and JP Laurens at the Beaux-Arts. At the Salon from 1875, he was the friend of Sargent and Helleu. Appreciated by Tsar Alexander III, he was invited in 1894 to Russia, to perform numerous portraits of aristocrats and members of the Imperiale family. He decorated with Constant, Gervex, Maignan and Merson, the new Favart room, destroyed in 1887 He is the author of the panel "Paris" for the great hall of the Blue Train, the restaurant of the Gare de Lyon. He taught Fine Arts from 1905, and became an army painter in 1914 Museums: Ottawa, Chicago, Manchester, San Francisco, Washington, Beaune, Bordeaux, Marseille, Paris (Orsay, Petit Palais, Sorbonne, National Assembly, etc. ...), Rouen, Rennes, London, Moscow, etc. .... carved and gilded oak frame Original canvas