Offered by Antichità di Alina
Robert-Léopold Leprince, Portrait of a Young Woman in White Dress. Ca. 1830
Oil on canvas, 16.5 x 21 cm (without frame); with 19th-century gilt wooden frame 28 x 33 cm
Signed in red on the right Léopold Leprince
Painted during the French Restoration around 1830, this refined portrait shows a young woman with curled hair tied by a dark ribbon and a white muslin dress with puffed sleeves. The discreet background, with a grey-blue sky and faint hills, reveals the touch of a landscape painter.
Robert-Léopold Leprince (1800–1847), son of the painter Anne-Pierre and brother of Auguste-Xavier and Gustave, belonged to a true dynasty of artists. Best known for his landscapes painted en plein air in Fontainebleau, he rarely produced portraits, making this signed example a rare testimony of his art. His works are preserved in major museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Fondation Custodia, the Louvre, and Versailles.
The stretcher bears the stamp of the Paris supplier Roch Petit, Passage de l’Opéra, confirming its Parisian origin in the 1820s.
