Oil on canvas, signed at upper right, the canvas with Hardy-Alan of Paris stencil on the verso, presented in an attractive period gilt composition frame.

SS 21.5 x 17.25 in.; DOA 31 x 26 in.

Collection being sold to benefit the First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, NC

New Orleans Auction, 18 November 2000, lot 884
The Madison Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Acquired by the late collector from the above.

Machard was highly regarded as a portraitist, his talents lauded for painting elegant Parisians in newspaper reviews of the Paris Salons from London, Chicago, New York, New Orleans and more.

Small area of loss to frame at lower left; some restoration and re-gilding to frame; (2) small patches on the verso of canvas.

$2,000 - 4,000