FRENCH SCHOOL 18th CENTURY, WINDWILL

TECHNIQUE: Gouache on velum, protected under glass

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FRAME : Ormolu frame.

PORTRAIT SIZE: 6,5cm

FRAME SIZE: 8,5cm

DESCRIPTION :

Rare miniature showing a campaign scene whose central subject is a windmill.

In the foreground, a man guides his donkey, behind the mill stand the roofs of a village.

Miniature made with  gouache of a beautiful workmanship, the work of light (on the donkey and in the distance) is of a great subtlety, the mill of a realism particularly well studied.


CONDITION: Very good original condition. A shadow on upper left bodder.

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