Featured French painting or ? + sketch backside

Long member off my attick collection this water painting from a sunny balcony instead off the Dutch rain today but can't read the signature en have seen somewhere years ago the same kind off sketch from the back on auctionside . But who is able to help me with the artist en the country of painting and maybe the sketch on the back off it ? Thanks

 

Is it framed? Would/could you post a photograph of the work from front and back including the frame? The landscape looks more like Capri than France.

Debora

 

Here's two fresh pictures

 

I have good news, and I have bad news for you.
The bad news:
I can't help you with the signature.
The good news:
it's sunny today

 

Why don't you open it up and see if there's any information inside?

Debora

 

Ditto. Something Lourens (Lawrence) Alma Tadema would use in his paintings.

Ditto!

 

And we need more pics
In the very first pic of this post, using the Windows magnifier, to me the last letters of the name look like 'rst', but in the 2nd pic that isn't visible. It might make it clearer if you take a close-up of the signature, but not as close as the one you've already posted.

 

F.J Franssens? (Dutch name)

 

I think the sketch shows a loom.

 

Yes, and she's barefoot. Isn't that interesting?

Debora

 

Maybe someone can identify the loom the woman is working on and that will give you the location. That balcony could be any Mediterranean island because it looks like places we visited in Sicily.

 

The drawing is made on the backside off the balcony painting so a sketch and then turned the paper to make the painting ? Or a idea about a drawing made later on the balcony scene to make it even more difficult