This high quality portrait shows a young woman of great natural beauty. The softness of his features, soft tones scrims that dress and bouquet of flowers contrast with the darker back plan.
Gabrielle Debillemont-Chardon, portrait artist, miniaturist, pastel, excels in achieving portraits
She started at the age of 16 at the Salon of French Artists in Paris where she never ceased to expose (gold medal in 1891 and 1937). She was also president of the Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, and president of the Society of Miniaturists and Precious Arts. She was a teacher of drawing schools in the City of Paris. She formed many pupils, French, American, Swedish. In 1903, she published a Treatise of the Thumbnail who made authority. His works are found in museums in Barcelona - Dijon-Liverpool - Paris (Mus.d'Orsay). (E.Benezit in.  Dictionaries ..... Editions Gründ)
Our pastel portrait in his Louis XVI style framework. Period : at the end of the nineteenth or the early years of the twentieth.
Dimensions: 47/58 cm (61/81 cm frame)