Artist: Louis Auguste Georges Loustaunau (French, 1846-1898). Title: "Un mariage de raison". Medium: Oil on panel. Date: Composed 19th Century. Dimensions: Overall size: 3 9/16 x 5 1/8 in. (90 x 130 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed lower left. Very good condition; some frame rubbing left and right; framed but not the original frame. Comment(s): The present painting is a highly finished oil study for the painting of the same name which sold for $31,050 at Sotheby's New York, October 23, 1997, lot #157. The composition of our example is very close to the Sotheby's painting but the colors in ours are much more vivid and the detail is actually finer. [28141-1-1200]