Édouard Henri Théophile Pingret (1788-1875), important French portraitist, studied and studied a. with Jacques-Louis David, 1808 he created a portrait of Napoleon, from 1810 he exhibited in the salon. Portrait of a literary man in his salon, full-length picture of a musing literary man with manuscripts and books, in the background the bust of Moliere. Oil / canvas, u. left signed u. dat. 1834, on the reverse original sticky note with indistinct. Ref., 56 x 46 cm, framed 81 x 70 cm See More