Fine genre scene by François-Adolphe Grison ( 1845 in Bordeaux - 1914 in Chêne-Bougeries), a French landscape, portrait and genre painter who worked in Switzerland.Grison was a student of Justin Lequien. He came to Geneva in 1868 and worked there as a freelance artist.He dealt with oil easel painting and enamel painting. He painted genre scenes, often in Rococo costumes, portraits and landscapes.

Literature: in German: Thieme/Becker, general encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present; Gresse-Hanselmann. E.A. Seemann, Leipzig 1922; in French: lexicon by Benezit; Bauer/Carpentier II, 1985; Schurr V, 1981.

Inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on wood panel. Luxuriousy original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 9 1/4" x h 12 2/3" (23,5 x 32 cm), framed w 15 1/3" x h 18 1/2" (39 x 47 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.