Mason. Copy, repeat, the work of her son?

[John Preston]

Good afternoon, odnoforumchane!
Recently bought just such a picture.
Oil on canvas, 27 by 35 cm signature monogram or visually preview ...
For smokers and gamblers understand that we can talk about Jean Louis Ernest Mason.

Found on the internet scanned book about Mason in 1897 with a list of works in the end.


At first I thought it might be a job that runs in the "dating" work as work in 1852

"Partie de cartes", Dans'l atelier de Poissy: deux hommes a cheval sur un banc jouent aux cartes; troux autres debout et un quatrieme assis les regardent. - Tambour et casque par terre. Tapiserie au mur ". Party in the cards, at a workshop in Poissy?, Two men sitting on the bench as the riders (ie, between the legs of the bench), three others are talking and the fourth looks at them, the drum and the helmet on the floor, tapestry on the wall ". Neither the size nor other additional information is not given.

Then he showed up on the Internet like a reproduction painting from 1860, which may have been made in the form of a copy of my work ... But my impression did not copy-work.
However, I am worried that in the painting "The players in the cabaret" from 1860 to the left of the players as a room with a statue and a lady, and on my all very similar, but it still looks like a tapestry.

Undoubted work of Mason (black and white photo) from 1860, of course, its more detail ...

Also confusing is that my work on canvas, and of 50-60 years with Mason gamblers were with him on the boards ... The back of the photo there, but in terms of safety and the natural darkening of the canvas, a typical old French subframe can say that work is the period of the mid-19th century (up to 1870) ...

What do you think about work? Maybe it's like the son of the artist - Jean Charles Meissonier (1848-1917) - copied the work of his father?

Speculated ... I would be very grateful for your opinion ...

[John Preston]

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[Игорь Гурьев]

I think Mason wrote tighter and more energetic, and your picture is written quite soft.