M. Sauvet Portrait of a Scholar Reading Oil Painting, C. 1904

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He has read the document, and he is deciding what he thinks of it. An elderly scholar with a magnificent … Read more He has read the document, and he is deciding what he thinks of it. An elderly scholar with a magnificent white beard, spectacles pushed up on his forehead, a document open in both hands — signed "M. Sauvet," a turn-of-the-century painter of character heads; a sibling portrait by the same hand is signed and dated 1904. He lives in his original-feeling giltwood frame, and the framer's plaque on the bottom rail reads GOOD ARTICLE. He is. Half portrait, half company — made for a library, a study, or any room that needs one thoughtful old man in it. See less