{"product_id":"large-antique-french-gentleman-portrait-oil-painting","title":"Large Antique French Mustached Gentleman Oil Portrait","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHe turns his head and looks off to the side, and you get the whole man in that one movement: the waxed and curled mustache, the high white collar, the dark coat dissolving into a darker ground. The painter gave almost nothing to the background and the clothes, keeping them deep and shadowed, so that everything lands on the face. It's a portrait built on restraint. One lit face, one immaculate mustache, and a great deal of dark around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a portrait of a dandy, and it reads as one. The care is all in the grooming and the bearing, the sense of a man who has thought about how he wishes to be seen. It's painted around 1900, at the close of the era when a gentleman's self-presentation was itself a kind of art, and the painter clearly relished the assignment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(20, 49, 115);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy We Love It\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSome portraits fill a wall by being loud. This one does it by being still. He doesn't perform for you. He holds his pose, half-turned, and lets you come to him. That composure is the whole appeal, the feeling of standing before someone who knows exactly who he is and is in no hurry to prove it to you. He dressed with intention, and the painter caught it exactly. You don't look at this portrait so much as get looked past by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt more than three feet tall, he has real scale, and on the wall he stops being a picture and starts to preside over the room. A guest notices him on the way in and keeps glancing back, half wanting his approval.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin: \u003c\/strong\u003eFrance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oil on canvas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod: \u003c\/strong\u003ecirca 1900\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Signed by the artist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions: \u003c\/strong\u003e40.6\" x 27.25\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Great \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eantique condition for its age, with fine craquelure across the surface and two tiny spots of paint loss near the ear. The face and sitter remain strong and well preserved. Presented in a later giltwood frame. Please see photos for details.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis piece will be shipped from Los Angeles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Raw Brush","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46544264790152,"sku":null,"price":3280.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/6648\/8968\/files\/LargeFrenchGentlemanPortrait_hero.jpg?v=1789766496","url":"https:\/\/therawbrush.com\/products\/large-antique-french-gentleman-portrait-oil-painting","provider":"Raw Brush","version":"1.0","type":"link"}