Portrait of an elegant woman in a book
Etching, signed lower right in graphite by Emile Friant with a letter to Mr. Vaillant.
Good condition, slight sunstroke at the bottom.
Dimensions:
Sheet: 32.7 x 25.5 cm
Bowl: 13.7 x 9.5 cm
Léon Charles Bigma Vaillant de Meixmoron Mathieu de Dombasle:
Admitted to the Stanislas Academy in 1887, Ch. de Meixmoron became its president in 1900. He published monographs of Lorraine artists such as Etienne Cournault, Emile Friant, Charles Sellier, Claude le Lorrain, in the Mémoires de l'Académie de Stanislas.