| The street name is "rue de la Michodière".
The complete stencil text at the back is: "M.Belot, rue de la Michodière, n°2 à Paris" Cottoz & Belot were painting merchants in the XIXth.
This information above adds some serious value to the art. You can double the current bid by ten, it would still be a bargain. edit: I'm just joking, I don't thing it adds any value. I know of a couple of paintings with the same stencil at the back. They're all from the same time (early-mid-XIX).
Last edited by effisk; 10-25-2006 at 09:43 AM.
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