This oil painting has an original gold leaf frame realised in the 1800s.
The old painting has the signature of the painter the right, A. Dargent, french painter.
Alphonse Dargent (XIX-XX) was born in Verdun in the Meuse and was a portrait painter.
He was a pupil of Cabanel and exhibited for the first time at the Salon degli Artisti in Paris in 1874.
During his career he obtained a medal in 1882 and an honor at the Universal Exhibition of 1889.
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Painting and Frame Restored | Nineteenth Century | French Origin
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Canvas size: 111 x 80 cm
Size with frame: 143 x 115 cm
Depth: 12 cm
Weight: 20,4 Kg