Bidspirit auction | An Oil on Panel Rural

An Oil on Panel Rural Genre Scene in an Ornate Gilt Frame - This lot comprises an antique oil on panel painting depicting a rural genre scene. The composition features a barefoot woman in a red shawl carrying a child on her back in the foreground, adjacent to a thatched cottage. To the right, a foraging pig is depicted beside a stone wall. A field worker with a rake is visible in the middle distance, set against an expansive landscape with a distant church spire under a pale sky. The work is presented in an ornate gilt composition frame with deep-cove moulding and scrolling foliate and floral motifs. The reverse is obscured by torn brown paper and multiple layers of adhesive tape. Frame size 77.5 x 62.5 cm.