An Early 18thC French School Oval Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Lady c.1700-20 sub-Architectural & Garden The very decorative part slate

The very decorative part slate grey painted plaster portrait bust of the emperor Julius Caesar

Jean Dubuffet would go on to use the Hourloupe series as inspiration for several large-scale sculptures

A figure in distress couchant

the soldiers appearing to emerge by un-folding into a two rows of twenty five soldiers each

We have carried out some remedial work to the structural innards of the carcass such as to the drawer runners so that she now stands in completely useable condition

An Early 18thC French School Oval Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Lady c.1700-20 sub-Architectural & Garden The very decorative part slateOrigin: French Period: Louis XIV Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1700 1720 Height: 30. 5 Width: 25 The beautiful large half length portrait in oval form of a Parisian Lady, painted in oils on canvas, wearing an intricate lace bejeweled bonnet, with drop earrings, and a diamond choker, to a turquoise and white lace Ottoman type dress, her hands folded and with a ruby ring and her face looking out to the viewer, the work unframed and surviving from the