A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1790-1800 sub-Macabre- Medicine Overall he can be used

Overall he can be used as is but for stringent and varied use he would need some minor restoration work

The larger specimen suffers from a loss to one front leg

25” w / 6

but the informality and brevity of the sketch implies that she sits on the edge of the stage

and the following year 135 of his paintings were sold at Christies for £72

A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1790-1800 sub-Macabre- Medicine Overall he can be usedOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Louis XVIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1790 1800Height: 32Width: 25. 25Depth: 0. 75The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a gentleman of nobility, painted in oils on canvas, the sitter wearing a laced overcoat of velvet, with a wig, his ink and quill sitting beside him, with a scarlet curtain to one flank and surviving from the period of the French revolution of the late eighteenth century. The portrait