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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This charming interior scene presents a young girl in a bourgeois setting. The pot on the mantelpiece is Chinese-style, whilst the ebonized table may well contain her sewing accessories. The wallpaper is probably block-print. The large skirt she wears indicates the presence of a crinoline, dating the outfit from between 1845 to 1869. This is an intimate scene, catching the girl playing with her cat, her embroidery on her lap. She may well be doing 'Berlin woolwork', which was very fashionable in the mid-nineteenth century. This involved doing embroidery based on hand-painted charts in a cross-stitch pattern with very soft colourful wool. | Subjects: | figure; animal (cat); interior; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Marchais, J. B. (French artist, 1818-1876) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8950... | Go to resource |
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