19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life design painting Barnum) and a menagerie

Barnum) and a menagerie

I might guess made as a sweetheart gift

No chips or cracks that I can see

methods and proportions

I really love these wire baskets

19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life design painting Barnum) and a menagerieI love an antique still life painting of fruit, and this pile of peaches with purple fig at right was beautifully executed, with a richness perfectly befitting ripe peaches! It hasn't been cleaned, and is a somewhat dark, but get it in the right light and those peaches are luminous! (Of course one could have it cleaned, but I personally like the aura and atmospherics of it just as it is, as if painted in candlelight to begin with and meant to be