LARGE 18TH CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A SEAMSTRESS Mirrors Dimensions: 37cm h x 37cm

Dimensions: 37cm h x 37cm w x 2cm d

Dimensions: 18cm h x 39cm w x 29cm d

Emile Bouche was a renown French frame maker and decorator from the 1930s to the 1950s

Cabriole feet terminating in brass casters

19th Century French country pine work table from an old boulangerie

LARGE 18TH CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A SEAMSTRESS Mirrors Dimensions: 37cm h x 37cmBeautiful portrait of an Arlesian seamstress at her embroidery work . On her worktable sits a basket of yarns, her needle case and, what appears to be, a number of buttons or perhaps coins in payment for her work. She sits outside with a country vista as her view. Wearing a lace bonnet , pearl earrings and traditional costume of the period, she sits serenely at her sewing, needle and thread in hand. Oil on canvas. Framed in a gilt wood frame of the