🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Needing help with this antique oil painting and signature. Might be late 1800s.
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I can’t make it out apart from the ‘H’ at the beginning, but maybe this enhancement will help someone figure it out:
To me it looks like one of the many ‘formulaic’ scenes sold as wall-art via department stores, pop-up vendors and home-sale ‘art clubs’ during the 1950s and onwards. These usually have invented studio signatures for which there is no artist biography because there isn’t actually a real artist with that name.
I’m also suspicious about the heavily textured ‘brushwork’ over the signature. Difficult to be sure from your photograph, but it looks to me like that texturization has been added on top of the signature since there is no apparent ‘drag’ across the brush strokes from the signature being applied.
That’s something often seen on commercially-produced prints which have been embellished by overpainting with a glaze or subsequent mechanical texturization of the board to simulate the appearance of original oil paintings.
I can’t make it out apart from the ‘H’ at the beginning, but maybe this enhancement will help someone figure it out:
To me it looks like one of the many ‘formulaic’ scenes sold as wall-art via department stores, pop-up vendors and home-sale ‘art clubs’ during the 1950s and onwards. These usually have invented studio signatures for which there is no artist biography because there isn’t actually a real artist with that name.
I’m also suspicious about the heavily textured ‘brushwork’ over the signature. Difficult to be sure from your photograph, but it looks to me like that texturization has been added on top of the signature since there is no apparent ‘drag’ across the brush strokes from the signature being applied.
That’s something often seen on commercially-produced prints which have been embellished by overpainting with a glaze or subsequent mechanical texturization of the board to simulate the appearance of original oil paintings.
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Given the English repetition under the French on the advertisement, I would think it most likely relates a sale on the second floor of 'French Canadian' department store.
The font style used doesn't appear to me to be typical of the 1800s.
The font style used doesn't appear to me to be typical of the 1800s.
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Maybe early 1900s? I was thinking maybe the artist did advertisement as well because it's actually painted. And the frame is nailed.and the paintings on panel. Maybe turn of the century? French Canadian artist? I need all the help I can get.
And I magnified the signature and the first letter almost looks like a P with maybe an l intertwined.
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The lettering used for the word “LINGERIE” appears to be an italic variant of the Art Deco font “Broadway”, originally designed for American Type Founders by Morris Fuller Benton in 1927 (released 1928) but remaining popular until 1954 when it was discontinued by ATF. Others have copied it within its lifespan including variations to avoid copyright issues and also subsequent to its discontinuation without such concerns.
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