A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1790-1800 poa-item worn but pleasing

worn but pleasing

We love pieces that show their battle scars and remain in un-restored condition

75” wide x 83” long

and time has taken away some of the surface of the marble

with the gentleman in question obviously wanting to portray to the viewer that he is well read and of good social standing

A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1790-1800 poa-item worn but pleasingOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Louis XVIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1790 1800Height: 32Width: 25. 25Depth: 0. 75The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a gentleman of nobility, painted in oils on canvas, the sitter wearing a laced overcoat of velvet, with a wig, his ink and quill sitting beside him, with a scarlet curtain to one flank and surviving from the period of the French revolution of the late eighteenth century. The portrait