"Framed Drawing After Hugues Merle “peasant Woman With A Goat” Pastel - 19th Century"
Very beautiful and large drawing and oil painting. Representing a young peasant woman, farmer giving hay to a goat. Very good quality of execution and beautiful colors. Signed “M.Miroude”. In the style of Hugues Merle. Merle is a 19th century French painter. He is a genre painter and a portrait painter. It most often deals with moral or sentimental subjects. He exhibited several times at the Salon and worked at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The work measures 203 inches x 157.5 inches without the frame