An unknown artist. Please help!
 

Hello!
Please help.
There is no information about this work, only that the European.
What are the assumptions?
According to the author? Age?
And what could be the approximate cost?
The size of a small 25.5 x 35 cm Oil on canvas.
Also, do not understand the inscription on the reverse side.

It seems the French work of the second half of the 18th century.

Type circle Fragonard.


Lokstedt - part of Hamburg.

The above inscription can conclude that the authorship of the paintings attributed to the Swedish ( by birth ), the artist Emma Lefsted - Chadwick (properly spelled her name as Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick, 1855 - 1932). Since she married an American named Chadwick , it is referred to American artists. Fairly well known artist , her work is in the network, for example, see

http://www.boohgren.se/konsthistoria...t-chadwick.htm

I should note that the submitted work is markedly different in style from the style of the artist , so that the authenticity of the inscription made ​​clear by ear and not the artist , remains in doubt.

Well, it is unlikely it is more like it could belong to.

By the way, and the picture may refer to the Swedish school of the late 18th century ...

Hardly.
I think that his own name, it would be written correctly.

I looked, I agree.
Do not like it.
The more visible canvas was shot.
Also, many small unreadable signatures, frequent occurrence of J, V, R, and the ELC is not visible.
Sincerely ...

Not the fact that the name she wrote.
He could have some of the auction house appraiser .
With the four-year education.

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As the story I suppose , " Dionysus and Ariadne ."
The moment of meeting and vlyublyalova .

There is still, I think, late invoice inscription FE?
Whose are the initials?

Tov . Bagheera , I would still like to orient you on the value.

The author of this painting is not an artist either the first or second or maybe even the third row.

Summarize what I think.
France /Sweden , the late 18th century , probably, " Dionysus and Ariadne ."

Estimated price for Drouot on beskatalozhnyh sales - 1,500 euros.
In other countries in the galleries can be in three or four times .

Thank you, Igor!