"portrait Of A Woman In An Ermine Mantle, 19th Century"

Oil on canvas, portrait of a woman with an ermine coat.

The ermine is often associated with royal mottos: preferring death to defilement. It signifies moral purity and, in this sense, adorns the dress of high dignitaries of the Church, the State and Justice. In our portrait it is the desire of the painter or sponsor to emphasize the moral purity of the woman represented. A true paradox with his languorous gaze, his heartstrings and his fan... blatant instruments of coquetry.
A distinguished and flirtatious lady had to know how to handle the fan and its language: closed in the left hand: "I am not single"
France
Signed Edouard 1855 lower right.
Width: 90 cm. Height: 115 cm.
Price is not negotiable