French Coastal Scene With Clifftop Dwellings

French Coastal Scene With Clifftop DwellingsA cheerful French coastal scene depicting three sailboats, a beach, and various clifftop dwellings. Signed Lafuente' in the lower right. Medium Oil on board Size 14 x 11 37cm x 28cm Year of creation c. 1920 Provenance France Condition Good overall

Frame with small losses and age-related wear

A few light abrasions but nothing significant

Craquelure throughout but otherwise fine

Meissner trained at the Dresden Art Academy under Robert Kummer and Ludwig Richter

115 achieved for ‘Bal Tabarin’ (51cm x 65cm) in 2007

you’d generally expect it to have a coarse man-made weave but this one appears finer and machine-made

Scuffing around the edges due to its previous frame but otherwise fine

23” x 18” / 45cm x 58cm

A skilfully rendered portrait of an older gentleman by Austrian artist

Two gentlemen on horseback look across towards a mother who is carrying a child and standing in a doorway

He was primarily known as one of Sweden’s most foremost silhouette portraitists

It seems to be the work of a ‘Portrait House’ in Vienna as it’s signed ‘Wiener Portrat Haus 1904’ and also stamped on the reverse