Cottage with Many Flowers and Milk Maid, Charming Naive Painting on Paper chess set Some light stains and age

Some light stains and age toning as pictured but the paper is very strong

and especially for all of the connotations of the eye being private

3 11/16 x 3 x 1 9/16

My favorite find at the Rhinebeck Antiques show last weekend

Cottage with Many Flowers and Milk Maid, Charming Naive Painting on Paper chess set Some light stains and ageI extricated this charmer from an old frame and mat with hopes of finding it clean and dry, and indeed it is, tempera or watercolor on paper well mounted to a piece of thin cardstock cardboard. And what a lot of joy painting it clearly brought to RR Strang, who signed their name at lower right those exuberantly painted passages of densely packed flowers alone seem like a total celebration. I'm not entirely sure the gender of the older person standing