NARCISSE VIRGILE DIAZ DE LA PENA (FRENCH 1808-1876), OIL ON CANVAS, H 23", W 18", NYMPHS IN FOREST:Signed lower left. From the Estate of Harold Boyer, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. By descent from Frederick Alger, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Frederick Alger, the son of Russell A Alger, graduated from Harvard in 1899, served as a lieutenant colonel with the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in France during the First World War and was awarded the French Legion of Honor. His son, Russell A. Alger, Jr., was instrumental in persuading the Packard Motor Car Company to move to Michigan from Ohio; he also built in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a palatial Italian Renaissance style estate, "The Moorings", which was donated in 1949 and became the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, honoring veterans of World War II. (Source Wikipedia).