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Towards the foreground
Size 19½” x 17” / 50cm x 43cm
The painting is housed within an ornate scroll and foliate gilded frame
11½” x 9” / 32cm x 23cm
Victor Favier, Portrait Of A Lady With Freckles 1780s Towards the foregroundA fine 19th century French school portrait of a demure young lady wearing a black dress with white lace collar and cuffs. Her hair is styled into a centre parting as per the fashion of the day and shes wrapped in a sumptuous dark green shawl. The artist, Victor Favier (b. 1824) has chosen to include the freckles on her face and hands, which is unusual as they were considered unsightly in the 19th century. Women would often go to extraordinary lengths