Young man in a dark coat and high white cravat against a grey ground, small early nineteenth century French oil portrait in its original gilt bead frame

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French School, Portrait of a Young Man in a High Stock, Oil on Canvas, circa 1815, Original Gilt Frame

French School, early 19th century

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The portrait stands upright on a mahogany chest, no taller than the three books stacked beside it

Angled view showing the depth of the gilt frame with its bead moulding, the gilding rubbed to the red bole along the edges and corners

Reverse of the unlined canvas showing a period ink inscription beginning Brun, Rue, with a later paper label below on the frame

Reverse of the frame showing the thick gesso ground on the wood, the halved corner joints and the inscribed canvas held within it

Close view of the head and the high white stock, with the open craquelure that runs across the ground and the dark coat

The framed portrait seen straight on against a plain ground, showing the proportions of the gilt bead frame around the small canvas

Early 19th Century French Portrait of a Decorated Gentleman, Manner of Louis Boilly, Oil on Canvas, Original Gilt Frame

The sitter's face and high white stock seen close, with the red rosette and its ribbon tail at the buttonhole, and craquelure across the coat and ground

The sitter's bust with the dark coat and its metal buttons, the red rosette on the white waistcoat, and small paint losses across the coat

The head and shoulders seen close against the grey ground, showing the dense network of age craquelure across the whole surface

Edge of the gilt frame in close view, the bead moulding and the outer arris rubbed through to the red bole beneath the gold

Three quarter view of the framed portrait showing the depth of the gilt moulding and the small scale of the canvas within it

The stock is the brightest thing in the picture and it takes up more of the canvas than the face. White muslin wound twice around the throat, tied high, and everything else goes to black or brown.

Oil on canvas, unlined, 6 x 4 inches (15 x 10 cm), 8 x 6 inches (20 x 15 cm) framed. Unsigned. French School, circa 1810 to 1820, in its original gilt wood frame.

A young man in a dark coat and a high white stock, turned three quarters to the left against a plain brown ground. The hair is brushed forward over the temples, the whiskers cut short at the jaw, and a small orange stud shows at the shirt front. The face is worked smooth and pink over a warm underlayer, the coat laid in as a single dark mass with the buttons picked out in two grey touches.

Six inches by four
A portrait this small was not painted for a wall. It is the size of a miniature, done in oil on canvas rather than watercolour on ivory, made to be kept in a drawer or stood on a desk and given to someone. The hair brushed forward and the high wound stock place it in the years around 1815, when both were worn by every young man in France who could afford a tailor.

The frame is the original gilt wood moulding with a bead course at the sight edge, with gaps at the corners and losses to the gilding.

The canvas is unlined on its original stretcher. An open craquelure runs throughout with raised edges and areas of lifting in the dark passages, and the canvas undulates slightly at the lower edge. Small scattered losses.

Provenance ▾

Private French collection

Artist

French School, early 19th century

Period

Circa 1810-1820

Origin

France

Style

Empire

Medium

Oil on canvas

Signature

Unsigned

Frame

Original gilt wood frame with bead moulding

Features

Original, one of a kind

Painting

6 x 4 inches

Framed

8 x 6 inches

Condition

Unlined canvas on its original stretcher. Open craquelure throughout with raised edges, and areas of lifting in the dark passages. The canvas is slightly undulating at the lower edge. Small scattered losses. Original gilt frame with gaps at the corners and losses to the gilding.

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