Paul Constant Soyer, Cottage Interior With Child Peeling Vegetables engraving He’s lived through the Victorian

He’s lived through the Victorian era

385 achieved for a portrait at an auction in 2021

various utensils

The result was immeasurably more positive than he’d envisaged and he became closely associated with Beechey until his death in 1839

the view extends to distant mountains via Burg Perchtoldsdorf

Paul Constant Soyer, Cottage Interior With Child Peeling Vegetables engraving He’s lived through the VictorianThis 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