Labadie : "academy Of Old Bearded Man"

Labadie: "Academy of a bearded old man", oil on canvas 60 X 50 cm cut on the sides.
A Labadie inscription at the bottom right, perhaps the painter's signature or the name of the model. A charcoal drawing of a caricature and the inscription M. Labadie on the back would make me lean towards the second hypothesis.
Circa 1900.
Despite the fact that it has been cropped, that it is obscured by a yellowed varnish applied irregularly and that 'it has some small gaps, the power of this study served more by a beautifully worked background can not leave indifferent.
A master's hand.
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