The work, signed Merry Joseph Blondel, illustrates the sweetness and innocence of childhood through a delicate and refined style, typical of 19th-century bourgeois portraits.
Portrait of a woman, painted around 1700, attributed to Arnold van Boonen.
Draped over her right shoulder, she wears a blue velvet coat, adorned with a brooch of pearls and a black diamond.
Black because in 17th-century paintings, diamonds appear black or very dark.
Charming chandelier in sheet metal and rock crystal, in the style of Baguès.
Italy
Circa 1930
Large oil on canvas depicting a little girl holding a goldfinch on a leash, watched by a spaniel, against a landscape background.
This painting corresponds to a type of child portrait created in aristocratic circles in the 18th century.
French or Dutch School
18th century
Oil on wood depicting a woman in front of a mirror applying a beauty mark, signed Henri Lafon and dated, original wood and stucco frame.
Henri LAFON (active in France in the second half of the 19th century).
19th century,
France
Embroidery on the back of the mirror depicts a religious marriage of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph.
Northern Italy or France
Late 18th century
