Portrait of a young woman - Felix-joseph BARRIAS (1822-1907)

Oil on panel signed lower left : " F.B ".

Barrias was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1844.
For sixty-five years, he exhibited regularly at the Salon. He was one of the most characteristic and fruitful representatives of academic painting.
The number of his paintings amounts to nearly 400, most of them important compositions and a large number of portraits.
Gold medal in 1889.
He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor, of the Order of Leopold of Belgium.
Felix Barrias, a student of L.Cogniet at the École des Beau Arts, was the son of the miniaturist and painter on porcelain Barrias.