Paul Constant Soyer, Cottage Interior With Child Peeling Vegetables

Paul Constant Soyer, Cottage Interior With Child Peeling VegetablesThis late 19th century oil painting by French artist Paul Constant Soyer (1823 1903) depicts a rustic cottage interior with an elderly woman spinning wool while a child peels vegetables. Soyer was a significant painter of domestic genre scenes, still lifes, and portraits. Quiet domesticity, where the silence of endeavour is broken only by the occasional creaking of a spinning wheel. Where grandmother teaches her kin the hand me down skills of her

Influenced by the mathematical precision of the classical world

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Labels & Inscriptions: Various labels on reverse referring to Meindert Hobbema along with further auction labels

he married one - the actress Aimée Marie Sophie Louise Devin (1792-1864)

490 achieved for 'Junge Dame im Boudoir' in 1995

the gentle modelling

Medium: Etching on paperOverall size: 13” x 17” / 33cm x 43cmYear of creation: c

which creates a powerful sense of chiaroscuric drama

Liedbeck was particularly adept at painting metal objects and this is a fine example of his work

Brandenburg and Bavaria

probably around the time he moved to The Hague following twenty years working as the curator for the Villa Welgelegen

While three trees embrace like kindred spirits