It is in good condition apart from so-called "premature" cracks in the brown areas of the coat. They are due to a problem of drying of the paint, it was very common at the end of the XIX century and at the beginning of the XX century.
Very high quality paint.
Portrait of a bourgeois man in his cabinet.
Size of the painting: 41 x 34 cm
Size with frame: 51.5 x 43.5 cm
Rodolphe PIGUET (1840-1915) XIX-XX centuries. Swiss.
Genre painter, landscapes, draftsman, pastellist, engraver.
He obtained a medal in 1889, a gold medal in 1900.
Museums: Geneva (Rath Museum) Le Chemineau, pastel - Neuchâtel: Matin d'Avril
Painter listed on Artprice and in Bénézit.
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