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Victor Pierson
(British, Active New Orleans, 1865-1873)

"French Cavalry in a Moorish Landscape"

oil on canvas
signed lower right. Framed.
24" x 20"

Provenance: Belle Alliance Plantation, Lafourche Bayou, Louisiana.

Notes: Pierson came to New Orleans via Mexico. He was a noted animal painter particularly fond of horses. While in New Orleans, Pierson worked on some grand-scale paintings with Paul Poincy and Theodore Sidney Moise, which hang in the Louisiana State Museum.


  • Condition: **In generally very good restored condition. Canvas relined. UV light indicates large areas of sky with inpainted repairs along with the left and lower edges, proper left arm and head of the horses, including the area of background around the horse's head (might have been a tear repair). Part of the signature illumintaed under UV light (last four letters). Scattered faint craqulure and minor surface soiling.


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