Beautiful 1950s Painting of a French Scene, possibly the Seine River. Painted on card using watercolour, gouache and pencil. Comes in a basic white mount which is roughly A4 in size.  Likely to have been painted with the intention of being used for a cigarette card, but possibly never produced.  Skilfully painted with a lovely style and far nicer colours than my photos show.

Provenance: This came from Mardon, Son & Hall of Bristol, who were famous for dealing with the art and printing of the tobacco trade.  The business flourished after being set up in the Victorian era and was able to employ the best artists available.  The detail and quality of their work is incredible.  A team of artists would work for several months producing up to fifty hand painted pieces centred around a certain theme and then present it to the client, often Wills Tobacco company who would then authorise the reproduction.