Signed Oil Painting, Portrait of Child & Cats, Karl August Schlegel Germany Decorative Arts frontal view

frontal view

for hunting or riding

Housed in an old presentation box

Perhaps one is the artist's

Bearing a maker's marks for silversmith Louis Gabélus Bouffet

Signed Oil Painting, Portrait of Child & Cats, Karl August Schlegel Germany Decorative Arts frontal viewA charming genre portrait of a girl with three kittens. Oil on canvas. Framed in a gilt wood and gesso frame. Signed lower right K. A. Schlegel, Mnchen (Munich). Karl August Schlegel (b. 1892 d.?) was a German painter known for his paintings of figures, women and children. In overall good antique condition. The frame with some lacks to the gesso decoration. Frame measures 32 7 8" x 24 3 4". Canvas measures 29 3 4" x 22".