Early 19th-Century Portrait Fragment Of A Lady

Early 19th-Century Portrait Fragment Of A LadyThis beguiling early 19th century European portrait fragment partially depicts a lady wearing a dress with gigot sleeves. Glancing to her left somewhat surreptitiously, as if spotting a figure through a concealed upper window, she disappears from view. Leaving little but a bewitching shadow of the woman she once was a mystifying fragment of skin and lustre. Akin to cracked family porcelain, knocked in a rush. Produced around 1830, this intriguing

Without concern

When confronted with the new freer approach of the French impressionists

It’s unknown whether any other copies exist in UK collections

He was trained by his father

Undoubtedly

few of us find the time to consider the subtle beauties of quiet watercolours

1950Provenance: AustriaCondition: Craquelure but the paint is stable

Signed/dated in the lower right and housed within a handsome gilt frame with foliate decoration

This fine early 20th-century oil painting by Czech artist Petr Matýsek (1885-1941) depicts apples

approach to brushwork

The story of Mary Magdalene stems from the Gospels but it’s been embellished over the centuries

it became popular for artists from the West to travel to North Africa to study its sights