Dark Portrait plant painting Date: 2001

Date: 2001

Original Still Life from France: Double-sided oil painting on carton (a hard cardboard) from the 19th-century French School

as though all the colors are veiled by a storm coming or going

The movement arose in the Ardennes and was strongly influenced by the French Impressionists

Bordeaux and in the USA

Dark Portrait plant painting Date: 2001About the Artist: Ernest Joseph Angelon Girard (1813 1897), is a Parisian painter, student of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 1867) and the Romanticism movement. Ernest primarily painted in Paris. His paintings were exhibited in the Salons between 1837 and 1880, and he specialized in watercolors and miniatures. His first workshop was located at 57 rue "Neuve des Mathurins", in the 8th arrondissement, near the Concorde. Two of his paintings are