Late 19th-Century French School, Head Study autumn Gallery label with the incorrect

Gallery label with the incorrect title of ‘The Pet Magpie’ and an incorrect attribution to Valentine Walter Bromley

1887Provenance: GermanyCondition: Craquelure

Provenance: Mr and Mrs John Parry-Evans / Possibly with W

The painting is signed in the lower right and housed within a handsome gilded frame from the period

Artists of this nature were often urged to exaggerate the dimensions of such animals with each owner keen to convey their feeding prowess

Late 19th-Century French School, Head Study autumn Gallery label with the incorrectThis enchanting late 19th century French oil painting depicts the head of a bearded man. Rendered with an abundance of consideration and feeling, the introspection of the figure portrayed is palpable. A monogram in the lower right reads HD, but the artist is yet to be determined. One lead is Henri Camille Danger (1857 1939), a French painter known for historical, allegorical and mythological subjects, such as his La Transgression du Commandement