19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life prison art box I've used a magnifier to

I've used a magnifier to confirm that the flowers at the center of this scrapbook page are indeed done in watercolor--so finely it is quite difficult to imagine how

but I'd probably just throw them in a bowl to look at and call it a day

for Gifts and Open House/Auction that I found along with it

as if she were about to pull her partner closer

and larger needlepoint for the bright pink ground

19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life prison art box I've used a magnifier toI 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