Antoine Pierre Ch. Favart, 1780 Paris- 1867 Paris, student of Joseph-Benoit Suvee,exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1806-1839, was also a writer and diplomat interalia as French Consul in Russia, where he portrayed inter alia Tolstoy, here : Joanof Arc at the edge of the fray at the gates of a burning city, oil / canvas, signed,dated 1854, approx. 75x89cm, frame, this damaged