A GERMAN RECTANGULAR PORTRAIT PLAQUE
A GERMAN RECTANGULAR PORTRAIT PLAQUE

IMPRESSED 324, INSCRIBED C. VOILLEMOT., LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY

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A GERMAN RECTANGULAR PORTRAIT PLAQUE
IMPRESSED 324, INSCRIBED C. VOILLEMOT., LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY
Finely painted with a three-quarter length portrait of a maiden holding flowers in her apron, attended by putti in flight
8½ x 5½ in. (21.5 x 14 cm.), unframed

拍品专文

André-Charles Voillemot (1823-1893), a pupil of Martin Drolling, first exhibited at the Salon in 1845. Amongst his major commissions were the decoration of the Imperial Pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867 and of the theatre at Fontainebleau. He was also responsible for the decoration of the Chilean Congress in Santiago.