A Pair of Late 19thC French School Oil on Canvas Studies of Nude Males

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A Pair of Late 19thC French School Oil on Canvas Studies of Nude MalesOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890 1900Height: 34Width: 15 (each)The two academic studies of the male form; painted in oils on canvas and depicting two differing male nude models of middle age, each un stretched and in simple frames, surviving from the latter stages of nineteenth century France. In entirely untouched and original condition the studies have been executed in oils on linen canvas supports which are unlined.

a pair in the sense that they were painted by the same hand and would have hung in the same house

followed in 1944 by his son

cups and jugs waiting to be fired

This kind of wear and patination just can’t be cloned or faked and is suitably suggestive of its honest life thus far

The quality of the marble is of a high grade

studied at Airedale College (1862–7)

with the artists monogram in scarlet red lower left

shown without state dress

by George T

George Gifford

the company his father had founded in Liverpool

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