the young girl is lovely with a very pretty face with pink cheekbones and rounded lips, a very pretty look. She wears an elaborate blue ribbon hairstyle.
she is squatting and a transparent modest veil suggests her nudity and her occupation.
a woven basket filled with hazelnuts, around her arm, she seems lost in her thoughts.
the wooded landscape around it is very finely painted and reveals on the left a background with a glowing sky.
this entire composition is superbly well processed and very fine in the details.
the canvas rests on a beautiful key frame and is protected by glass. the stucco and gilded wood frame is later from the Napoleon III period.
the whole is in very good condition.
perhaps a repainting to report on the left side at mid height.
a painting with a rare and unusual theme attributed to Jean-Frederic Schall (1752-1825).
Jean-Frédéric Schall, ou « Frédéric-Jean », dit aussi « Challe » ou « Chall », né le 14 mars 1752 à Strasbourg et mort le 24 mars 1825 à Paris, est un peintre de genre et portraitiste français.
dimensions:
31 cm by 37 cm high and 47 cm by 53 cm high with the frame.
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