Portrait of Louis Jouvet. Esche one difficult case

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Oil on canvas, 194H125, not signed.
Judging from the canvas, the picture was written before the war, but perhaps in the 40-50-s 20-th century.
Canvas cheap, thin, barely primed. Portrait before the sale was kept in a roll, discernible traces of the room. Implemented in rasprozhazhe Heritage daughter Jouvet.

Question: who is the author of this work.

Jouvet (Jouvet), Louis (24.12.1887, CROZON - 16.8.1951, Paris), French director, actor and teacher. In 1911 began playing in "Theater des Ar. From 1913 he worked in the theater "Vieux Colombier", was a close disciple and assistant of Louis Jouvet KOSG. In the 1922-34 theater actor "Comedy Elysian Fields" (from 1924 and head), from 1934 until the end of life (except for 1941-45) - Theater "Athenaeum. In the history of French dramatic art became established image of Louis Jouvet Knock ( "Knock" Romain) - a sharp satire on the bourgeois speculators. Among his best roles as Jean ( "Jean from the Moon" Achard), Don Juan, Tartuffe ( "Don Juan", "Tartuffe" Moliere), Mercury, Hector ( "Amphitryon 38", "Trojan War will not be" Giraudoux). Louis Jouvet addressed mainly to the works of modern drama, in their best performances raised the urgent topics of our time - war and peace, ethnic strife, hopelessness of bourgeois society. Since 1913 acted in films ( "Eroica kermessa," 1935, "Ballroom notebook, 1937," Northern Hotel, 1938, "Knock", 1950, etc.). He was a professor of drama classes the Paris Conservatoire.