An Early 19thC French School Oil on Canvas Laid to Board Portrait of a Noble Lady of Maison de Béon c.1800 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage with painted highlights and stenciled

with painted highlights and stenciled gilt tracery detailing having a shaped and beveled edged white marble top over a compartmentalised frieze drawer displaying the original porcelain knob handles

then depict the overlying skin

The gluteus medius has become decorative it seems…it also serves to rotate your thigh

With the outbreak of World War II in 1939

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An Early 19thC French School Oil on Canvas Laid to Board Portrait of a Noble Lady of Maison de Béon c.1800 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage with painted highlights and stenciledOrigin: French Period: Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 Height: 32 Width: 25. 5 Depth: 0. 75 The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a noble lady of high station, that of house Bon, painted in oils on canvas and later laid to board, and in a black painted period frame with gilded slip, the sitter wearing a lace bonnet and black laced dress, possibly in mourning, and holding a clasped book looking out amicably to the