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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 12625571, member: 5833&quot;]Thanks Pica pica.&nbsp; Well, we&#039;re all very familiar with that first signature now.&nbsp; Monsieur Schmoll for sure.&nbsp; Have not seen this composition before, sort of the Annunciation with children, but he seems to have had a go at all sorts of scenes.&nbsp; I suspect some are his own imagination.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second one, a jazzy Toilet of Venus, I&#039;m inclined to think is 20th century work.&nbsp; I can see how that signature is easily read as Schmoll, or almost Schmoll.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]555817[/ATTACH]</p><p>(I tried looking at this one the other way up, but I think the way you show it is correct.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an example of how Schmoll wrote it, when he wrote all of it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]555818[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The one thing about Schmoll&#039;s signature that is quite consistent across all variations is the way he made his upper case S, so I think we have to assign Venus to someone else.&nbsp; It&#039;s going to bedevil me, trying to think who that could be.&nbsp; Inviting all comers to take a crack at it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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