Portrait of a beauty was executed by Listed French female painter Fanny (née Laurent ) Fleury (1848 - Paris - 1920).  Pupil of Marie Durand, Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran and Jean-Jacques Henner, whose example she followed. Active in Paris. – In the Salon until 1869, porcelain painting after Constant Joseph Brochart, Charles Landelle, Eugène-Emmanuel Amaury-Duval, François Boucher and Henner; then portraits, oil paintings, Breton. marine paintings, genre and (flower) still lifes in oil and pastel.

WORKS: BEZIERS, MBA: L'abri de varech. SETE, Mus. Paul Valéry: Le repos du modèle.

EXHIBITIONS G: Paris: 1864-82 (or '87 or '89) Salon or SAfr.; 1889 WA (Mention honorable); 1890-1905 Salon de la Soc. Nat. of the BA.

Literature:  Thieme/Becker 12, 1916. Johnson/Greutzner, 1976; Neuwirth I and II, 1977; DBF XIV, 1979; Marchal/Wintrebert, 1987; Hardouin-Fugier/Grafe, 1989; Billcliffe II, 1991; A. Roussard, Dict. des peintres à Montmartre, P. 1999; Bénézit V, 1999.

Inscription: signed lower left.

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

Measurements: unframed w 6 3/8" x h 8 3/4" (16,2 x 22,3 cm), framed w 12 1/4" x h 14 1/2" (31 x 37 cm).

Condition: good condition.