Private Collection, Great Britain
Acquired from the above by the present owner in June 1984

Original canvas. There are no signs of retouching visible under ultraviolet light. Apart from faint stretcher marks along the edges, very fine scattered craquelure, light frame rubbing along the centre of the extreme lower edge and, a pinhead-sized fleck of paint loss at the left centre and two pinhead-sized flecks at the centre of the extreme right edge, this work is in very good original condition, with rich colours and fine detail, and ready to hang. Held in a decorative, gold-painted moulded plaster and wood frame.
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Painted in 1880, this charming portrait of the artist's daughter Marie-Louise aged six epitomises Munier's paintings of children, which clearly take their cue from the artist's teacher, William Bouguereau, the doyen of neo-classical painting in the second half of the nineteenth century.