Late 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A Gentleman Watercolour Shropshire

Shropshire

and this painting was both a product of her time there and an application piece itself

but Georg Philipp Rugendas was different

in the foreground towards the bottom

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

Late 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A Gentleman Watercolour ShropshireThis 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