Lot Essay
This very loose hand painted over a non-carnation ground suggests that the work is from the Continent. Judging from the costume, it is concievably French
Details
Continental School, circa 1680
A Gentleman, facing right in embroidered waistcoat, a lion's head and blue tassels at his shoulders, lace jabot and tied blue ribbon, long curling hair
on vellum, gilt-metal frame with spiral cresting
oval, 3 1/8in. (79mm.) high
A Gentleman, facing right in embroidered waistcoat, a lion's head and blue tassels at his shoulders, lace jabot and tied blue ribbon, long curling hair
on vellum, gilt-metal frame with spiral cresting
oval, 3 1/8in. (79mm.) high