“Consolation” 18th century, french school

“Consolation”, oil on canvas (on its original canvas) depicting children who come to console their father who thinks of his young missing wife, against a landscape background.

18th century

French school

 

“Portrait of a girl”, dated 1884

Oval portrait of young Louise Guesde, daughter of Jules Guesde (1845-1922), by Spanish painter Fernando Tirado, trained in the Beaux-Arts School of Sevilla, and by painters Cano in Spain and Gérôme in Paris, France. Tirado also exhibited his work in the famous Salon parisien, between 1879 and 1884.

Portrait is signed and dated 1884.