Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People A worn late-19th-century French school

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

The buildings are little more than a silhouette with the ones in the foreground appearing more prominent through the use of impasto

The portrait is housed within its original fruitwood frame

Scuffing towards the bottom

craquelure throughout

Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People A worn late-19th-century French schoolAn 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