A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Priest Dated to 1793 sub-Art & Sculpture A riding instructor by trade

A riding instructor by trade

may be taken as a type of this kind

knowledge of which flowed to the West in the nineteenth century through oriental imports

to a green coloured ground

She remains in as found order therefore un-cleaned and untouched and the marble now has a subtly weathered and slightly forlorn

A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Priest Dated to 1793 sub-Art & Sculpture A riding instructor by tradeOrigin: French Period: Louis XVI Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1793 Height: 30 Width: 24 Depth: 1 The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a Normandy priest, painted in oils on canvas and in its original beaded gesso frame, the sitter wearing a priests cassock and holding a book of prayer looking out amicably to the viewer, on a dark ground, and surviving from the Reign of Terror of the French revolution of 1793. The portrait