Alexandre Lebaillif Nineteenth Large Calabrian Portrait

Important 19th century painting (1 m 30 X 1 m 05) oil painting on canvas signed A. LEBAILLIF (Alexandre-Gabriel Lebaillif French school 19th century) large full-length portrait featuring a Calabrian in a Mediterranean landscape dressed in traditional costume shimmering with a blunderbuss rifle flintlock enthroned at his feet as well as a dagger slipped in the belt. Original frame in gilded wood. LEBAILLIF Alexandre-gabriel born at the beginning of the 19th century in Vaugirard, painter of portraits and genre scenes, he studied under the direction of Abel de Pujol. He exhibited at the Salon from 1834 to 1861 (source Benezit). The Center National des Arts Plastiques lists some works by the artist corresponding to State commissions and variously exhibited at the Library of the National Academy of Medicine, the Town Hall of Villers-Bocage, the Loiret Prefecture in Orléans, the Prefecture of the Allier at Moulins, the sub-prefecture of Yssingeaux in Haute-Loire.