Italian Peasant Woman in a Domestic Interior

by Anonymous

$500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A charming image of an Italian peasant woman adorned in native dress. This stunning watercolour is a beautiful example of the peasant genre of painting that was popular during the mid-nineteenth-century and epitomized by the works of artists such as Jules Breton 1827-1906 , William Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905 , and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 1796-1875 . In this romanticized portrayal of rural life, a colourfully dressed peasant woman is pictured in a quaint domestic

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