The banyan, inspired by oriental dressing gowns, was worn for its comfort and casual elegance.
The subject’s richly decorated orange silk scarf and silver-embroidered vest illustrate this fashion well. This style reflects the influence of cultural and commercial exchanges with the Orient, as well as the importance given to appearance and social status in the society of the time.
Oil on canvas portrait of a quality lady with hairstyle “à la garcette”.
17th century
Italy
Set of three oils on canvas representing allegories of Reason, Fidelity and Glory, original polychrome carved wooden frames.
Italy
Early 18th century
On her head, she wears a tricorn, a hat with three raised brims, emblematic of the 18th century, particularly prized by the austrian aristocracy. Adorned with feathers and pearls, this tricorn, often masculine in representations of the time, is here transformed into a feminine accessory, emphasizing the status and sophisticated taste of the lady. This mixture of influences, masculine and feminine, was then a symbol of the avant-garde fashion of the European courts.
«Portrait of a diamond woman», XVIII s.
Oil on canvas depicting a woman dressed in the hurluberlu at the Anne-Marie d’Orléans (sister of Philip II of Orleans the Regent) decorated with pearls and holding a diamond.
Is the woman in our portrait the Regent’s favorite or perhaps the very personification of the Regency time.
Height with frame: 99 cm
Width with frame: 79 cm
France
Period: XVIII century, Regency
“Mother and daughter”, oval miniature painted in gouache on ivory in an oval hoop to hang in gilded bronze.
Around 1780
PRESUMED PORTRAIT OF JEAN-JOSEPH SUE (1710-1792), unsigned oil on canvas
Circa 1753
French school
Watercolor and pastel on paper representing two young girls
Empire period, early 19th century
France
Oil on canvas “Family portrait”, painted wooden cardre.
The dark clothes of the woman and children, although enhanced with white lace collar and shirt, refer to the recent mourning probably of the wife’s husband.
XIX century,
English school
Painting under glass is a difficult artistic technique that is executed directly on a sheet of glass. The glass supports the paint like a canvas. Thus the glass serves both as a support and as a protective varnish. It is a “cold” painting technique so the process does not require baking. The pigment is bound to the glass by an oily vehicle most often based on varnish.