Portrait "petite Fille Aux Fruits"

Portrait little girl with fruits, circa 1828

French school of the XIXth century Portrait of Suzanne Cardon of Sandrans (1823-1904).

The artist depicted the girl in a garden with fruit in her hands and a pink silk scarf that flies in the wind. The colors are very fresh, a beautiful work of transparency on the chiffon of the dress and the scarf.
The large eyes, the porcelain complexion and the blond curls give this little girl a romantic air. The style of this portrait of the early nineteenth century is still borrowed from the charm of children's portraits of the second half of the eighteenth century.

The Cardon family of Sandrans is an illustrious family of Lyons, descended from the Folch family of Cardon titled Dukes of Cardona in Spain, who owned a castle in Sandrans near Châtillon-les-Dombes. His grandfather, Baron Joseph Folch of Cardon de Sandrans, was a deputy of the nobility to the States General by the bailiwick of Bourg-en-Bresse. She is the daughter of Paul-François de Cardon de Sandrans, (1781-1848), commissioner of wars, military intendant at the Hotel des Invalides and Rose Jeannette Robin de Livet. She married in 1853 in Paris, Ernest Miron d'Aussy and ended her life in Orléans.

Restorations, relined
Original gilded wood frame Restoration