An 18thC French Carved & Polychrome Decorated Fragmented Figure of Christ c.1750-1800 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The wonderfully ethereal and superbly

The wonderfully ethereal and superbly well executed Belgian symbolist school charcoal and pastel bust length portrait of a moustachioed man presented in a ripple moulded frame with leaf centres and corners

this is not an amateurish hand

Length: 76 inches

and the Virgin Mary bearing the cross of compassion

The plate does have some light scratch marks to it

An 18thC French Carved & Polychrome Decorated Fragmented Figure of Christ c.1750-1800 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The wonderfully ethereal and superblyOrigin: French Period: Louis XVI Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1750 1800 Height: 21 Width: 5 Depth: 3 (all at extremities) Dating from the Louis XVI period, the well carved softwood figure of Christ, or Ecce Homo, hand painted and partly gilded, with traces of red pigment as the rawness of flesh, the toga gilded and the grey green paint now distressed commensurate with age, surviving from an ecclesiastical setting from the eighteenth century. Although