Early 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A Gentleman Denmark With an impressionistic touch

With an impressionistic touch

Many of these are coastal and feature traditional fishing communities - women wait by open doorways for ‘the fleet’ to return or sit hopefully by a crib in anticipation of the day’s catch

Modest compared to previous decades

Westphalian State Museum in Münster

free to paint without fear of rejection

Early 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A Gentleman Denmark With an impressionistic touchThis playful early 18th century half length French school portrait depicts a bewigged gentleman pointing to, what appears to be, a marble tablet. Its somewhat reminiscent of works by Gilles Allou (1670 1751). Attired in an exceedingly well tailored ensemble, hes evidently a man of considerable means. His dark blue velvet coat, probably a justacorps, is embellished with horizontal bands of elaborate gold embroidery. While the lucious patterned silk,