Antique French female oil portrait.  This is a wonderful old painting, coming from the mid to late 1800's It's unframed and unsigned but not unloved as I think it has been well looked after through the ages because of its good condition.  A woman sits and looks direct at the artist.  She is middle aged and dressed in black.  She is most likely a widow as she wears a portrait around her neck, possibly of her late husband.  Her hair is set in quite a severe, off the face style and crowned by a black bonnet which is tied loosely around her neck, above a white frilly collar.  It's a very simple portrait, but highly effective and would make a good centre room statement piece.
MORE ABOUT THIS PAINTING:
Medium: Oil on thick wood
Overall size: 18ins x 22ins or 46cms x 55cms (Approx)
Date: 1800's
Provenance: France.  
Signed:  No
Condition:  This painting is in remarkably good condition for the age, however expect imperfections  nothing onerous, such as markings around the edges, which could be hidden by a frame, where it would once have been framed and the beginning of a tiny hole, towards the top right of her head. Some craquelure.  This painting is in it's original condition, on the original chassis, not relined.
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