Late 19th-Century French School, Head Study autumn 2003 (lot 252)

2003 (lot 252)

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 23” x 17” / 58cm x 43cmYear of creation: c

Gallery label with the incorrect title of ‘The Pet Magpie’ and an incorrect attribution to Valentine Walter Bromley

particularly those from the hamlet of Skovshoved

200 for ‘Rira Bien Qui Rira Le Dernier (1877)’

Late 19th-Century French School, Head Study autumn 2003 (lot 252)This enchanting late 19th century French oil painting depicts the head of a bearded man. Rendered with an abundance of consideration and feeling, the introspection of the figure portrayed is palpable. A monogram in the lower right reads HD, but the artist is yet to be determined. One lead is Henri Camille Danger (1857 1939), a French painter known for historical, allegorical and mythological subjects, such as his La Transgression du Commandement