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Pierre-Victor GALLAND
Geneva, 1822 - Paris, 1892
Study of a woman for the figure of Industry for the ceiling of Jean-François Cail's Paris mansion (now the 8th arrondissement town hall)
Painting, oil on fine cardboard pasted on canvas
Unsigned
Painting: 81 x 65 cm
Degas oak frame: 96 x 80 cm
Good condition, minor restorations
Circa 1863-65
Note: another sketch is reproduced in the exhibition catalog "Pierre-Victor Galland, un Tiepolo français au XIXe siècle", Musée d'art de Roubaix et Galerie nationale de la Tapisserie de Beauvais, 2006-2007, p.70, figure 192.
A superb painting reminiscent of Eugène Carrière's paintings.
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