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Description: | This painting presents a rather unusual composition, showing the young girl and her cherries as 'in between' a garden where she may have picked them and a table where two figures in peasant dress are weighing the fruit. These cherries, like fruit in general in the visual arts, may be seen as a symbol of abundance, and because of their pips they can also be considered as a representation of the beginning of things, a meaning reinforced by the youth of the girl. Her dress indicates that the painting probably dates from about 1740-60, but the gravity read on her face is more in keeping with seventeenth-century representations of children. | Subjects: | figure; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8984... | Go to resource |
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