FRIANT Emile (1863-1932), Portrait de femme en buste devant sa fenêtre sur fond de jardin et de bâtiments, circa 1894, oil on panel, signed lower right, 49 x 60 cm. The painting was exhibited by the artist at the Salon de Nancy in 1895. Auction subject to restrictions. Please contact the auction house to validate your registration and enable you to bid on this lot. The painting has been loaned on numerous occasions for exhibitions by Friant and other painters from Lorraine, including Nancy and Vic-sur-Seille in 2006. Reproduced in : - Friant par Henri Claude, Editor Serge Domini 2005 (p 114) - Article in l'Est Républicain , for the Nancy exhibition - Emile Friant, un nouveau regard, catalogue of the Vic-sur-Seille exhibition in 2006 We would like to thank the Association Emile Friant for the probable identification of this portrait. It is believed to be of Mademoiselle Fischer, for whom a study with a similar face is dedicated.