Nº 36
Reading edition
Constant Troyon FRENCH: 1810-1865
THE OLD FARMHOUSE
Height, 9 inches; length, 12½ inches
In the foreground on the left is a whitewashed roughly thatched cottage, the gable touched by the sunlight as well as the side of a lean-to hovel. To the right of the cottage a number of small fruit trees with gnarled and twisted trunks and branches grow near a straw stack, and beneath them in the sunlight stands the figure of a peasant woman who has apparently been hanging her clothes to dry upon a rough sapling fence. The cottage and the trees are in contrast against a simple, quiet, but luminous sky. The near foreground and the distance, in which is suggested a clump of trees, are in full sunlight.
Signed at the lower right, C. T.