Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People A skilfully rendered oil painting

A skilfully rendered oil painting depicting an older gentleman tuning a violin by Austrian artist

A worn late-19th-century French school portrait of a lady wearing a black dress and red brooch

craquelure throughout

Year of creation 1842

Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People A skilfully rendered oil paintingAn 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