Wonderful 1870s Oil on Board Still Life Painting of Oranges entomology if he had a body

if he had a body

The lip is a bit irregular due to the roughness of the clay

) and then all sorts of details about square hands including reading of the lines of head

to her pearls

This one really makes me want to host an afternoon tea simply in order to serve from it

Wonderful 1870s Oil on Board Still Life Painting of Oranges entomology if he had a bodyI am completely taken with this small oil on board still life of a couple of oranges; just a little gem of a painting I think. Initialed and dated at bottom right A. J. B (18)77 I believe I like it even better for the aging of the paint, which has had made the skin of the unsliced orange, especially, feel all the more orange like; just fantastic. And just right set on this simple tabletop, with a loose suggestion of wood grain, against a soft,