Child Portrait, 1930s, Baby, Pastel Signed Adolphe Crauk 1935 Art Deco Golden Wood Frame

Old pastel portrait dating from the interwar period. Young child draped in a veil. Work of the artist Adolphe Crauk. Portrait presented in its original frame in gilded wood. 69cm x 57cm Very good condition Adolphe Crauk, born in Valenciennes on May 24, 1865 and died on December 13, 1945, was a French chisel engraver and painter. A pupil in Valenciennes of David Joseph Desvachez then in Paris of Alexandre Cabanel, Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont and Jules Jacquet, he exhibited at the Salon des artistes français in 1887 and obtained an honorable mention in 1893, a 3rd class medal in 1896, a travel scholarship in 1897 and a 1st class medal in 1905, the year in which he went out of competition. He also received an honorable mention at the Universal Exhibition of 1900.