Small oblong rectangular format of a landscape with thatched cottages in the right foreground and left middle ground; three men in large hats, one with a beard, talk on the right; more figures are visible in the field in the middle distance at the left. Oil on wood panel.
genre
paintings (visual works)
oak (wood)
oil paint (paint)
painting (coating)
genre
Oak
Oil
Painted
Genre Scene
Painting
On a jelly label in ink on the back center of the panel is written: David [torn] Beskelboom. [could be Beckebooms or Bickeboom] Signed in the lower left corner: F V A K .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 x 11 x 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.949
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