Jules Frédéric Ballavoine (France, 1842–1914) was an academic painter and draftsman. He specialized in portraits, landscapes, historical scenes, and intimate genre paintings of daily life during the early French Third Republic.

He is famous for combining conventional historical themes with more intimate, free-style genre paintings, nudes, and pastoral portraits.

Jules Frederick Ballavoine studied at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts de Paris under the painter Isidore Pils. He was a celebrated, award-winning member of the Société des Artistes Français and exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon.

This exceptional portrait of a red haired girl is housed in it's original 19th century hand-carved gilt solid wood frame.

Height: 18" x width: 14.5". Framed; height: 29 1/2" x width: 26 1/2". 

Providence: Harrods, London, 1997