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Pastoral landscape depicting peasants in European village; castle in mountains in background; bridge over river where two womnen are washing clothes (left); boat and two figures on land in right foreground; gold frame and leaves in corners.
landscapes (representations)
paintings (visual works)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
pastoral
Picture
Landscape
Oil
Coated Canvas
Pastoral
Landscape
Signed lower right ""perret. 1860""; on verso: ""2001"" in pen - upper left of stretcher; ""&)"" in chalk on canvas below a pencil ""E"" on stretcher; ""2003"" upside down on bottom of frame.
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Perret (Painter)
France ?; France
31.875 x 36.125 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.271
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