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Hi guys, I bought this quite cheap from a flea market, I just like it as a decorative piece, but I just wondered what you call this sort of artwork? I don't think it's a print that's just been varnished over, it's on board and it seems to have some age to it, the brush strokes seem like actual paint, just a bit confused what I've bought... a copy someone has painted fairly well? Thanks for any thoughts and sorry about the photo quality they looked OK on my phone!
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The frame alone is something of a work of art - not to everyone's taste, but I like that sort of Gothic item. The painting - no signature; I agree it looks like an actual painting, not a print, though I'd love to take a real look at the actual thing. It's not an old master, though I don't suppose you thought it was, it's a well-drawn, bucolic sort of painting, very much the happy Italian peasant sort of look: and that's where I come to a grinding halt, because I've no idea who might have painted it.
The frame looks too good, and expensive (as it would certainly have been at the time, unless it's a reproduction piece) to be sitting around a tourist-trap sort of painting; though of course it was probably framed by the buyer separately: but I do suspect that's what it is - a painting intended as a souvenir of a place, or country. The pot in the window, and the little landscape beyond, make an attractive picture in themselves: and to be honest, I'd prefer that as a discrete painting, without the mother, kids, and chooks. Still, it'll be interesting to see what others make of it.
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PS - It wouldn't, I suppose, be a porcelain or slate plate/tablet? The Germans made a fair number of these, around 1890 or thereabouts: this is where it would be so useful to get one's hands on the actual painting, however good the photos are; the back of the board does have the look of some sort of slab.... Is it particularly heavy?
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PS - It wouldn't, I suppose, be a porcelain or slate plate/tablet? The Germans made a fair number of these, around 1890 or thereabouts: this is where it would be so useful to get one's hands on the actual painting, however good the photos are; the back of the board does have the look of some sort of slab.... Is it particularly heavy?Hi Robert, now that you mention it, I believe it probably is indeed slate, it's very heavy and cold to the touch, with a bevel to the shape, not sure why I said it was board, I just knew it obviously wasn't on canvas! Thanks so much for your comments too, I really liked it but the price (£45) made me assume it can't be anything that special, but the more I looked the more genuine it looked at least in terms of not being a print coated in brush stroked varnish. I think at some point someone with a good hand has painted it from an original perhaps. I agree about the frame too, that's what drew me to it initially, love a good old heavy decorative frame like this and thought it was worth the money on its own!
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Victoria - I think we DO know: unique it ain't, nor is it a great painting. It's a good-for-what-it-is painting, and a perfectly pleasant thing to have on the wall, as a period piece. But there were hundreds, even thousands, of images like this. I'll give you one thing, though: it's a hell of a lot better than the tourist tat you'll be offered these days, whether it's a "I went to Benidorm and all I got was this lousy tee-shirt", or a transparent plastic lighthouse filled with "local" sands: local they may be, but not to the place they purport to come from.
I'd much rather have a picture like this, if I were interested in buying a memento ... but this is a skilfully executed pot-boiler, of interest because of its age, good condition, the material on which it's painted, and the fact that there's a bit of a mystery about its origin.
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I’m also going to say the same, it is definitely not a great piece of art or unique… how you can arrive at that conclusion I’d be interested to know -
The subject matter is not to my taste, I wouldn’t have it have on my walls… but I appreciate that other members may and probably do like it!
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