Portrait of an elegant woman in a blue dress, a rose in her hand and a fan in the other, red ribbons in her hairstyle.
Signed "Ernest Girard 1852" lower left
Portrait of a young boy posing in front of a garden bench, hat and cane in hands
Signed "Ernest Girard 1853" lower right
Ernest-Joseph Angelon Girard painter, watercolourist and miniaturist, born in Paris, in 1813, died in 1897. Pupil of Isabey, Hollier and Ingres, he exhibited at the Salons between 1835 and 1880. His works are kept in the Wallace Collection in London , Brooklyn Museum in New York etc.