Late 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A Gentleman Watercolour Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size:

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 25½” x 23” / 65cm x 59cmYear of creation: c

Artists travelled from across Europe and the USA to train at Düsseldorf

His handling remains painterly

when Carl Bille painted this scene

The furnishings

Late 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A Gentleman Watercolour Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size:This charming late 18th century French portrait captures a gentleman at the height of fashion an era when powdered wigs and elaborately dressed hair reached architectural proportions, and neckwear seemed to rebel against practicality. Produced around 1780, during the glittering final decades before the French Revolution, the sitter is furnished with an extraordinary coiffure together with an exuberantly tied white cravat that almost threatens to