1890s French master painter Jenny Fontaine (1862-1938) Oil painting on canvas. Woman portrait. Portraitist artist. Parisian lady portrait.

Dated in the higher border. Signed in the middle of the right side.

Sold in antique pre-owned condition, there are just two marks of restorations in the back and front of the canvas.

Framed.

The frame shows some restorations and cracks due to the old age and is provided for free as is.

Guaranteed to be an original antique artwork and not a copy or reproduction of any kind. Oil on canvas.

Artist: Jenny Fontaine (1862-1938).

Year: Dated 1897

Country: France

Jenny Marie Adèle

On October 1, 1889, she opened an art class in Arras for ladies and young women, teaching drawing and painting.

As a portraitist, she moved to the capital in 1890, the same year she painted Woman with a Pipe, a piece commissioned by the Society of Friends of the Arts of Pau as part of an anti-smoking campaign.

Fontaine, known as Jenny Maria, was the daughter of Cyprien Jean Michel Fontaine, a traveling salesman, and Adèle Clara Matifas.

A student of Gustave Boulanger, Jules Lefebvre, Benjamin-Constant, and Jean-Paul Laurens, she began exhibiting at the Salon in 1888.

Measurements:

Unframed 14" x 9" (approximately)

Price $890

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