19th CENTURY FRENCH SYMBOLIST OIL - WATER NYMPH BY THE SEA

Description
PAINTING REF 110230
 
Good condition Canvas , Frame Is original but in poor condition
"see pictures”
 
FINE OLD MASTER French OIL PAINTING Pre-Raphaelite 
SCHOOL PERIOD GOLD FRAME 
CIRCA LATE 19th Century
 
Description
 
The Pre-Raphaelites were a secret society of young artists (and one writer), 
founded in London in 1848. They were opposed to the Royal Academy’s 
promotion of the ideal as exemplified in the work of Raphael ,
The name Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood referred to the groups’
opposition to the Royal Academy’s promotion of the Renaissance 
master Raphael. 
They were also in revolt also against the triviality of the immensely
popular genre painting of time.
 
 
Title: French sea Nymph
 
Artist: Possibly Eugene Petit

Signed: bottom Right
 
Provenance: john castagno art 
signature directory
 
Medium : Oil painting on canvas
 
 
 
Condition: Good Piece
 
Country: Continental school
 
Frame : 19th Century period frame with good platina in poor condition
 
Frame size : 30 in x 27 in 
( 94 cm x 74 cm)
 
Canvas size : 23" x 21.5" 
 
With an estimate of £7000 - £10000 in a London West End Gallery