Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People Year of creation 1842

Year of creation 1842

The portrait is housed within its original fruitwood frame

Note how Hessellund has drawn attention to the young lady’s hands as she knits while reading a book

such as Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) had left an indelible mark

Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People Year of creation 1842An 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