Portrait of a lady in 18th century costume - oil on canvas - Lot 378

Portrait of a lady in 18th century costume - oil on canvas Bust-length portrait of a woman with a three-quarter-turned face, coiffed with a high powdered headdress, wearing a brown bodice decorated with silver motifs and a blue coat lined with red, depicted against a dark background with her hand resting on her breast, executed in a style inspired by 18th-century portrait painting, the linen canvas with irregular weave suggesting a possible late 18th-century origin or an early 19th-century realization on an older support, showing a network of craquelures as well as traces of use and old restorations, in a gilded wooden frame with Louis XVI-style knot and garland decoration. Details : 96 x 75 cm - view : 58 x 71 cm - weight : 5,3 kg