An Early 19thC French School Oil on Canvas Laid to Board Portrait of a Noble Lady of Maison de Béon c.1800 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The gluteus medius has become

The gluteus medius has become decorative it seems…it also serves to rotate your thigh

Origin: Moroccan

With the outbreak of World War II in 1939

with painted highlights and stenciled gilt tracery detailing having a shaped and beveled edged white marble top over a compartmentalised frieze drawer displaying the original porcelain knob handles

An Early 19thC French School Oil on Canvas Laid to Board Portrait of a Noble Lady of Maison de Béon c.1800 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The gluteus medius has becomeOrigin: French Period: Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 Height: 32 Width: 25. 5 Depth: 0. 75 The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a noble lady of high station, that of house Bon, painted in oils on canvas and later laid to board, and in a black painted period frame with gilded slip, the sitter wearing a lace bonnet and black laced dress, possibly in mourning, and holding a clasped book looking out amicably to the