Basket of Strawberries Painting on Tin in Grain Painted Frame antique french snuff box 4 3/8” t x 5

4 3/8” t x 5 13/16” w x 2 7/8” d

Really quite lovely and tender

which the owner of these

5/16" wide and deep

Basket of Strawberries Painting on Tin in Grain Painted Frame antique french snuff box 4 3/8” t x 5Summer may be nearly over, but dreams of a basket of freshly picked strawberries never cease, and I love the super graphic pop of this painting. It was done on tin, painted on very smooth, flat black the ground. The subject and manner of the painting, and the frame in which it appears to have lived for quite some time, make me think late 19th c., though in remarkably good condition, with just a very little bit of craquelure and light surface