"The Young Merchant Oil On Canvas By Lucien Weil"
Alsatian painter born in Biesheim in 1902 died in St Brieuc in 1963. School of Applied Arts in Colmar and Decorative Arts in Paris where he obtained his diploma as a drawing teacher. After a difficult life under the occupation where he had to change his name to flee the Nazi regime, he exhibited works in Auvergne. Portrait painter his specialty he chose young children as models, we have here this very realistic portrait with plays of shadows and light which characterize him. Oil on canvas signed lower right. 
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