oil painting on canvas, depicting: preparatory study for the painting of Our Lady of the Roses, located at the National Museum of the Palace of Compiegne. Signed Simon Saint Jean (France 1808-1860) The painter painted for Antoine and Isabella d'Orleans, for the Parisian and European nobility. Present in many European collesioni. He reached important auction records at Christi's New York canvas cm.65 x 80h (frame cm.92 x 114h)