Man in Dark french painting with a generous brush

with a generous brush

5cm x 91cm

The painting has some tiny cracks and missing paint flecks

Colignon was a member of the Groupe des XX (1883-1893)

Man in Dark french painting with a generous brushAntique oil portrait on canvas from Paris: French School of the 19th century oil on canvas. The canvas is perfectly smooth. An academic bust portrait of a French Bourgeois. The rendering is realistic with a detailed work of the physiognomy and its color variations. The gentleman sitter is dressed to perfection, and yet looks like he doesn't want to be sitting for a painting, perhaps illuminating something of the relationship between the sitter and