Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People The portrait is housed within

The portrait is housed within its original fruitwood frame

The buildings are little more than a silhouette with the ones in the foreground appearing more prominent through the use of impasto

Note how Hessellund has drawn attention to the young lady’s hands as she knits while reading a book

Some small holes

Scuffing towards the bottom

Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People The portrait is housed withinAn atmospheric 19th century oil on canvas depicting a rural scene with chickens, cottages and a woman washing linens. A worn pathway winds between two buckled trees and leads onto open pasture where several chickens peck the earth. While, in the foreground, a woman dressed in a blue dress with a white apron is kneeling by a pond and washing laundry. Stylistically, the painting fits with the approach taken by the Barbizon school of artists who were