The Sage Dutch painting Port activity takes life through

Port activity takes life through the details

This is an academic portrait of an Italian bourgeois

and went through various professions (including director of a bleach factory)

This magnificent wood painting represents a group of traditional Normandy thatched cottages made from a mixture of clay based soil

Date: Mid 1800's

The Sage Dutch painting Port activity takes life throughOriginal antique portrait: French school of the XIXth century oil on canvas signed Victor Pierre Mnard (1857 1938). A portrait marked by a powerful chiaroscuro adding to the enigmatic figure of this model. Mnard, who is above all a portrait artist, succeeded here in offering us a moment that reflects an inner life, a detailed face, charged with emotion where the model seems to reveal something. About the artist: Victor Pierre Mnard (1857 1938) was