Antique Painting, Interior With Portrait Of A Man Reading, 19th Century. (QR510)
ANTIQUE PAINTING, INTERIOR, OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS, FRENCH PAINTER, 19TH CENTURY. (QR510)
This is a portrait artwork with Portrait of a Man Reading in a nineteenth-century room.
The antique painting represents an Interior Scene, a 19th century setting with an Elderly Man reading books in his study.
This interior oil painting has a beautiful original gold leaf frame realised in the 1800s.
The antique painting is signed Leleux Armand a French painter.
Leleux Armand Hubert Simon (1818-1895), was born in Paris and was a pupil of Ingres with whom he makes a trip to Rome.
He exhibited at the "Salon De Paris" where he received many medals in 1844, 1847, 1848 and in 1859.
He stays in Germany and Switzerland where he participates in all the exhibitions of these countries.
Its interiors are highly regarded. Today, many works by this artist are kept in many museums in France.
The antique painting and the gilded frame have been professionally restored.
The oil on canvas painting dates back to the nineteenth Century and it is an artwork of
Bisgart Collection of Antique Paintings of the 19th Century.
We can consider this Antique Painting, Interior With Portrait of a Man Reading, 19th Century a beautiful painting.
Bisgart Collection | Nineteenth-Century Painters | French Antiques | Antique Interior Paintings
Bibliography: Bénézit et Gérald Schurr & Pierre Cabanne, Dictionnaire des Petits Maîtres de la peinture 1820-1920.
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Canvas size: 35.5 x 27 cm
Size with frame: 58 x 50 cm
Depth: 8.5 cm
Weight: 4.3 Kg