Object Description
The hugely atmospheric bust-length portrait of a dashing young French gentleman having short dark hair and long moustache, and looking directly out to the viewer, painted in oils on canvas, the sitter shown in a black over garment with a white collared under garment, the work with a ruled border and being signed top right in calligraphed script “a. sajon d’apres photogenic’’ presented unframed and surviving from the Lille district of France.