Paris — 2026

Objects with a past.
Spaces with a presence.

Six works · Six frames · Each chosen for what they do to a room

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Collection I

Six works · Ships from Paris

Each work pairs an archival fine-art edition with a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris. While the print itself is an edition, each finished pairing exists only once and will not be repeated.

Not merely a reproduction.
Not merely an antique.
A one-of-one curatorial object for distinctive interiors.

Created for signature suites, private lounges, libraries, dining rooms and intimate transitional spaces — places where an object is encountered closely and remembered.

ESM is not designed for repetition. It is the final layer in a room that already has a point of view.

Vincent van Gogh — Self-Portrait, or Portrait of Theo van Gogh, 1887 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-01
Vincent van Gogh — Self-Portrait, or Portrait of Theo van Gogh, 1887 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-01
Vincent van Gogh — Self-Portrait, or Portrait of Theo van Gogh, 1887 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-01
Vincent van Gogh — Self-Portrait, or Portrait of Theo van Gogh, 1887 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-01
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Vincent van Gogh
Self-Portrait, or Portrait of Theo van Gogh, 1887
Frame 39 × 47 × 6.5 cm (15.4 × 18.5 × 2.6 in)
The Object
A substantial 19th-century antique frame with rich carved gilding and 6.5 cm depth, sourced individually in Paris — weight, warmth, presence.
The Finished Object
The original hangs in Amsterdam. What you hang is an archival fine-art edition of that face, held in a 19th-century antique frame sourced separately in Paris. While the print itself is an edition, this specific antique frame is unique. The two are paired once and will never be repeated.
€ 8,500  ·  approx $9,800Genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Archival pigment print on fine-art paper · UV-protective glazing · Signed Certificate of Unique Pairing
Ships insured from Paris within one week · Fourteen days to live with it · Trade pricing available
The Work
The yellow hat catches the light before anything else does. Then the eyes — tired, patient, unguarded. You feel the warmth before you understand it.

The Van Gogh Museum lists the sitter as uncertain: Vincent, or Theo, the brother whose support made Vincent’s work possible. Catalogued for decades as a self-portrait, the attribution was reconsidered in 2011 in favour of Theo — who sent money every month, kept the paintings no one would buy, and wrote the letters that sustained his brother. Theo died six months after Vincent, at thirty-three. The question has never been closed.
The Pairing
The brushwork found the frame. The short, restless strokes that build this portrait echo the carved texture of the gilding — paint and surface speaking the same language. And there was a second reason. Vincent or Theo — whoever this is, he is the one who held the other together. This time, the gold is for him.
In the Space
Placed in a library or a quiet reading area — a face met at close range, and met again.
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Moïse Kisling — Portrait de Valentine Tessier, 1927 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-02
Moïse Kisling — Portrait de Valentine Tessier, 1927 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-02
Moïse Kisling — Portrait de Valentine Tessier, 1927 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-02
Moïse Kisling — Portrait de Valentine Tessier, 1927 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-02
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Moïse Kisling
Portrait de Valentine Tessier, 1927
Frame 42 × 50 × 7.5 cm (16.5 × 19.7 × 3 in)
The Object
An ornate, well-preserved 19th-century antique frame with elegant detailing, sourced individually in Paris — at 7.5 cm, the deepest in the collection.
The Finished Object
The painting stayed in private hands for a lifetime. The archival edition lets it be seen again. While the print itself is an edition, this antique frame — the deepest and most dazzling in the collection — is unique. The two are paired once and will never be repeated.
€ 8,300  ·  approx $9,600Genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Archival pigment print on fine-art paper · UV-protective glazing · Signed Certificate of Unique Pairing
Ships insured from Paris within one week · Fourteen days to live with it · Trade pricing available
The Work
She arrives before you see her. The red, the green, the pearls catching light.

Kisling’s portraits are usually forceful — strong contours, intense eyes, faces that hold their ground. This one is different. She is open, almost soft. Look at the lower edge: there is a dedication in the painter’s hand. This painting was made for someone, and that person’s name is still there.
The Pairing
She was a woman accustomed to the gaze of an audience. Valentine Tessier was one of the celebrated figures of the Paris stage, later Renoir’s Emma Bovary. The red and green behind her reads as a stage curtain rather than a wall. Below, in the painter’s hand — à Valentine Tessier, de tout cœur. With all my heart. So this image was given the most dazzling antique surface in the collection: gilding that answers the theatre already inside the picture.
In the Space
Placed in a signature suite or a private dining room — seen close, under warm light.
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Amedeo Modigliani — Tête Rouge, 1915 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-03
Amedeo Modigliani — Tête Rouge, 1915 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-03
Amedeo Modigliani — Tête Rouge, 1915 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-03
Amedeo Modigliani — Tête Rouge, 1915 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-03
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Amedeo Modigliani
Tête Rouge, 1915
Frame 41.5 × 47 × 4.5 cm (16.3 × 18.5 × 1.8 in)
The Object
A sculptural 19th-century antique frame in natural wood, sourced individually in Paris — raw grain alive, moulding built up layer upon layer.
The Finished Object
A less familiar, more elemental Modigliani. The archival edition brings it to the wall; the raw, ungilded antique frame was found separately in Paris and matched to it by eye. While the print itself is an edition, this specific antique frame is unique. The two are paired once and will never be repeated.
€ 7,000  ·  approx $8,100Genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Archival pigment print on fine-art paper · UV-protective glazing · Signed Certificate of Unique Pairing
Ships insured from Paris within one week · Fourteen days to live with it · Trade pricing available
The Work
Everyone knows Modigliani’s elongated necks, the almond eyes, the serene oval faces. This is none of that. A less familiar, more elemental Modigliani — raw in colour and direct in expression. The red-orange face against deep green: not beauty as refinement, but beauty as force. The figure is barely held together by the line; it looks as though it might dissolve back into the ground it came from. The original, painted in 1915, is held by the Centre Pompidou — Musée national d’art moderne, Paris.
The Pairing
This frame is plain wood — no gilding. Look at the lower edge: the grain is rough, weathered, full of movement. Now look at the face — rough strokes, raw colour. The same roughness, the same directness, in wood and in paint. That is the reason for the pairing: an antique surface that wears its years openly, set against an image that hides nothing.
In the Space
Placed in a private lounge or a library — a room where the eye is allowed to stay on one thing.
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Gustav Klimt — Porträt einer Dame, 1916–17 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-04
Gustav Klimt — Porträt einer Dame, 1916–17 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-04
Gustav Klimt — Porträt einer Dame, 1916–17 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-04
Gustav Klimt — Porträt einer Dame, 1916–17 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-04
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Gustav Klimt
Porträt einer Dame, 1916–17
Frame 40.5 × 49 × 5 cm (15.9 × 19.3 × 2 in)
The Object
A refined 19th-century antique frame in bright gilding, sourced individually in Paris — balanced proportions, subtle detail.
The Finished Object
The original spent almost twenty-three years sealed inside a wall. The archival edition returns it to daylight, held in an antique frame found separately in Paris. While the print itself is an edition, this specific antique frame is unique. The two are paired once and will never be repeated.
€ 6,800  ·  approx $7,900Genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Archival pigment print on fine-art paper · UV-protective glazing · Signed Certificate of Unique Pairing
Ships insured from Paris within one week · Fourteen days to live with it · Trade pricing available
The Work
The green stops you. Deep, forested, alive — a ground that holds the face without swallowing it. The gaze is direct. The expression gives nothing away.

Everyone knows Klimt through gold. This painting has none. In this late portrait, gold gives way to direct colour, gesture and presence. The sitter’s name was never recorded: she is simply einer Dame — a lady. The work was stolen from the Ricci Oddi Gallery in 1997 and found in 2019, hidden behind a panel in the gallery’s own exterior wall, almost twenty-three years later.
The Pairing
The antique frame returns a quiet edge of gilding to the composition — not to restore what the painter set aside, but to hold it. And this image knows something about lost time: nearly twenty-three years of it, sealed inside a wall. Its work now is simply to be seen. Le temps retrouvé. Time regained.
In the Space
Placed on a staircase landing or in a selected corridor — encountered in passing, then returned to.
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Gustav Klimt — Portrait of a Young Woman Reclining, 1897–1898 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-05
Gustav Klimt — Portrait of a Young Woman Reclining, 1897–1898 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-05
Gustav Klimt — Portrait of a Young Woman Reclining, 1897–1898 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-05
Gustav Klimt — Portrait of a Young Woman Reclining, 1897–1898 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-05
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Gustav Klimt
Portrait of a Young Woman Reclining, 1897–1898
Frame 35 × 40 × 5.5 cm (13.8 × 15.7 × 2.2 in)
The Object
A warm, substantial 19th-century antique frame in wood, sourced individually in Paris — natural texture, real depth.
The Finished Object
The archival edition makes the drawing visible at close range; the warm, layered antique frame was found separately in Paris. While the print itself is an edition, this specific antique frame is unique. The two are paired once and will never be repeated.
€ 5,900  ·  approx $6,800Genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Archival pigment print on fine-art paper · UV-protective glazing · Signed Certificate of Unique Pairing
Ships insured from Paris within one week · Fourteen days to live with it · Trade pricing available
The Work
It is the quietest thing in the room. And yet.

No gold. No pattern. No surface. Black chalk moving across paper with absolute certainty — no hesitation, no correction. A face emerging from almost nothing. The original, dated 1897–1898, is held by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which notes that the high degree of finish and the absence of a related painting indicate an independent portrait rather than a study.

The artist’s signature is reproduced as part of the original image; the edition itself is not hand-signed by Gustav Klimt.
The Pairing
Face it straight on and the frame is modest. Step to the side — forty-five degrees — and it becomes another object entirely: layer upon layer of moulding, real depth, the calm grain of old wood. The drawing works the same way. From across the room it is small and quiet. Lean in, and every line is steady and certain. Neither announces itself. Both reveal themselves to whoever comes closer.
In the Space
Placed in an intimate passage or a niche — a piece read at arm’s length.
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Moïse Kisling — Burgundy Portrait, c.1930 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-06
Moïse Kisling — Burgundy Portrait, c.1930 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-06
Moïse Kisling — Burgundy Portrait, c.1930 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-06
Moïse Kisling — Burgundy Portrait, c.1930 — archival fine-art edition in a genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Eugénie's Secret Museum ESM-06
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Moïse Kisling
Burgundy Portrait, c.1930
Frame 33.5 × 39 × 3.5 cm (13.2 × 15.4 × 1.4 in)
The Object
A simple 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris — its gilding worn with time to a burgundy patina.
The Finished Object
A quieter, later Kisling. The archival edition carries the withdrawn gaze; the simplest antique frame in the collection — its gilding worn through to burgundy — was found separately in Paris. While the print itself is an edition, this specific antique frame is unique. The two are paired once and will never be repeated.
€ 5,400  ·  approx $6,200Genuine 19th-century antique frame, sourced individually in Paris · Archival pigment print on fine-art paper · UV-protective glazing · Signed Certificate of Unique Pairing
Ships insured from Paris within one week · Fourteen days to live with it · Trade pricing available
The Work
The colours should not work. Burgundy, yellow, teal — and yet they hold together with a force that is almost physical.

This is a later Kisling — not the glamour of the pearl necklace, not the high society of the 1920s. Something more interior. The figure looks away, and that averted gaze is the work. To my eye, it feels less like indifference than withdrawal.

Kisling and Modigliani were close friends within the same Montparnasse circle. Look at this image, then look at ESM-03.
The Pairing
The simplest frame in the collection — until you look closely. With time the gold has worn away and a soft burgundy shows through: patina, the colour of the years. The same burgundy sits behind the figure in the image. In this pairing, one antique surface holds two colours, and the portrait carries an echo of two painters.
In the Space
Placed in a quiet reading area or a niche — restraint rather than announcement.
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About

The frame came first.
It always does.

I find them through the Paris antiques markets — genuine 19th-century frames that have already lived. Carved gilding, worn wood, surfaces softened by time. Each has a history I can feel but never fully know.

Then I find the artwork that belongs inside it. Not always the most familiar work, but the one that stays with you.

Two histories, brought together in Paris. I simply introduced them.

Each finished pairing exists only once.

Familiar names and less familiar works — Van Gogh, Modigliani, Klimt and Kisling — brought into a new relationship with genuine period frames. The image and the frame become a single object. That object goes on a wall, and the wall is never quite the same.

Celantur arcana, patet aura.

The secrets remain hidden. The presence is immediate.

An object with two histories and one presence. Ready to hang. Ships from Paris.

Eugénie

The eye learns slowly.
Mine took thirty years.

It began in Seoul, where I trained as a fashion designer and first travelled to Paris for the collections — a city I didn't yet know would become mine. London came next: Céline, Louis Vuitton, the particular education of dressing women who know exactly what they want. Then Paris again, this time for good — Faure Le Page, Pierre Corthay, places where an object is never just an object.

Somewhere along the way, the Paris antiques markets became my obsession. The frames, the silence inside them, the question of what belongs there.

Eugénie's Secret Museum is my answer.

Questions

Is this an original painting or a print?
Each piece contains an archival fine-art edition of a historic work, paired with a genuine 19th-century antique frame sourced individually in Paris. The print is not an original painting or drawing by the artist.
Is the antique frame original to the historic artwork?
No. The frame is a genuine 19th-century antique object sourced independently in Paris. It is not historically associated with the original artwork. The pairing is a contemporary curatorial decision by Eugénie, created once and never repeated.
What makes each finished piece one of one?
The archival print itself is part of an edition. The finished object is one of one because it is paired with one unique antique frame, and that specific pairing will never be repeated.
What is the print itself — quality and longevity?
Each work is printed at 300 dpi from very high-resolution master files (TIFF) using archival pigment inks on fine-art paper, then protected behind UV-protective glazing. Archival pigment prints are made to resist fading, and the UV-protective glazing guards the surface against light over time — a piece made to be lived with and kept.
What do I receive?
A finished object ready to hang: a genuine 19th-century antique frame sourced individually in Paris, an archival pigment print on fine-art paper, UV-protective glazing and a signed Certificate of Unique Pairing.
Do you ship to the United States, and are duties included?
Yes. Every object ships insured from Paris within one week of order, with delivery duties paid for the United States.
Is there a trial or return period?
Yes — fourteen days to live with the piece.
Are trade prices available for interior designers and architects?
Yes. Trade pricing is available for interior designers and architects. Private collectors are welcome by appointment.
What is provided to the trade?
For trade clients, the following are available for each piece: detailed specifications, frame and condition information, the Certificate of Unique Pairing, trade pricing, high-resolution project images, insured international shipping from Paris, and relevant US customs or duties information.

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To the trade.
And by private appointment.

To the Trade — For trade clients, the following are available for each piece: detailed specifications · frame and condition information · Certificate of Unique Pairing · trade pricing · high-resolution project images · insured international shipping from Paris · relevant US customs or duties information.

Every object ships ready to hang within one week of order, with fourteen days to live with it. A signed Certificate of Unique Pairing accompanies each piece: the pairing of this antique frame and this image exists once, and will not be repeated.

Private collectors are welcome by appointment. Each piece is a finished object — genuine antique frame, UV-protective glazing — ready to install. High-resolution product images and project-use cut-outs are available to the trade upon request.

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