#61

Grand French Painting "Young Girl with Doll" by Carrier-Belleuse
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56" (142 cm.) x 36". Pastel on canvas in delicate colors depicts a young girl with long brunette hair,wearing deep rose colored summer dress,seated on a chair with a doll in her lap. The doll is dressed in her original pale rose silk dress and wide ruffled bonnet. The painting is signed "Carrier Belleuse" on lower right,and the back canvas is faintly lettered "1901 C.B.". Presented under glass in a superb gilded gesso over carved wooden frame with elaborate garland. French,1901,Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse,1851-1932,the painter is listed in Benezit,studied at l'Ecole des Beaux Arts,earned a silver medal at 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris.