Painting “Woman and Harlequin” by Marie-Françoise de l’Espinay

Painting representing harlequin and a woman seated in front of a window opening onto a Venetian landscape, signed mf de l'espinay.france, circa 1960. Good condition: restorations, small tear (1cm) visible on the back. gilded wooden frame. Dimensions of the canvas: l: 80.5cm, h: 100cm. Commedia dell' arte, the party in Venice, landscapes and portraits are the themes which inspired the cheerfully colored canvases of Marie-Françoise de. L'Espinay (1927-2021) she was a student at the Julian Academy in Paris then at the School of Fine Arts in Versailles.