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Oil painting of three children with birds at a doorway. One child is looking down, the other two children are feeding birds. Salmon-colored steps lead up to closed double doors over which a saint's image appears in the pediment. The doorway is flanked by pink marble columns with elaborately carved capitols. Steps also flanked by two sets of gray marble columns with elaborately carved capitols. The frame is wooden painted gold with very elaborate applied plaster details.
oil paintings (visual works)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
wood (plant material)
Painting
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P227
FA108
Mion, Luigi, 1843-ca. 1878 (Painter)
30 11/16 x 27 3/16 x 4 6/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.650
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