Portrait of a young actress, A de Cailleux, 19th c.

Oil on canvas undoubtedly portraying a young theatre actress.
Signed upper right ‘de Cailleux’, 2nd half of the 19th c.
Alphonse de Cailleux, painter, deputy director of the Louvre museum in Paris in 1836, then director general of fine arts, and finally minister of fine arts under the Second Empire.
A portrait of him is currently in the Musée du Château de Versailles.
He was an artist with little presence on the art market. The Montparnasse frame was intended for him at a later date.
Very beautiful expression of the face, restorations and ‘juices’ passed in the past but which do not harm the work in any way.
103x75 with frame.