"Oil On Canvas Attributed To Ernest Quost In A Golden Wood Framed"
Oil on canvas without primer depicting the bust portrait of a young woman sitting on a bench in a garden driveway, probably the Luxembourg Garden in Paris.Canvas probably rolled at a certain time, then resting on a chassis (size 10F); the canvas reduced during this operation on the left and the bottom.No signature. marked with grey pencil "Atelier Ernest Quost" on the chassis. traces of restoration cracks on the surface (See pictures). Presented in a gilded wooden frame.Frame dimensions 55 cm x 46 cm.Frame dimensions: 69 cm x 60 cm.Ernest Quost (1842 - 1931) is a «painter of Paris», of the animation of the boulevards, of the popular balls, of which he first reports numerous sketches, then exploited in workshop.