Portrait Signed Marie-eléonore Godefroid

French school of the XIXth century (1860) signed PG after Marie-Eleonore Godefroid (1778-1849) In a gilded frame of the second half of the XIXth century She is represented in a green blouse with a hairstyle of coiled braids, the slightly rounded forehead , high and clear. The eyes, dark, are wide and open in a look full of restraint. All this corresponds to the canons of the Beauty of the time, and fixed in the attitude which Ingres will use for his models. The amateur artist has taken a composition of the woman-painter specialist in portraits of the beginning of the century, Marie-Eleonore Godefroid, pupil of Baron Gérard and Isabella. We owe him official portraits of Kings Louis XVIII and Charles X, and great dignitaries of the Restoration ...