Feb 03, 2005 - Sale 2031

Sale 2031 - Lot 154

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ATELIER FARIA LA PLUS JOLIE FILLE DE FRANCE.
47x31 inches. Atelier Faria, Paris.
Condition A. Framed.
Advertising an operetta entitled "France's Most Beautiful Daughter," Faria depicts the woman herself, dressed in green and red, being wooed by kneeling supplicants. Despite the Eastern Pasha, in his blue, red and yellow Persian finery, regardless of his handservants carrying boxes of jewels and with no mind to the chain of elephants and camels laden with dowry disappearing into the orange background, the heroine is charmed by a man in a simple gray suit proffering her a vine of roses. Lettering in yellow and red.