William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
Title: "Elegant courting couple riding out".
Oil on panel. Signed and dated 1875.
Contained in it's very good original gilt gold leaf swept frame.
Size: 11 3/4"x 8 3/4". Framed size: 19"x 16".
Painting and frame now carefully cleaned by G.P. Framing and Restoration Services.
In very good ready to hang condition.
A really good example of Kratke's genre paintings.
The quality of the couple and their horses is superb.
Charles Louis Kratke was born in Paris in 1848. He was a student of Jean-Leon Gerome and Charles Albert Waltner. He exhibited at The Paris Salon from 1868. In 1887 he won The 3rd class medal and won bronze in 1889 at the Universal Exhibition.
He is a very popular French artist.
William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
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Charles Louis Kratke "Courting Couple Riding" .Stunning Oil.
