Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS tally or else can sit up

or else can sit up resting on his rear

with two carved rings at center

5" inches tall

and religious and mythological paintings

Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS tally or else can sit upI read this painting as portraying a figure (whom I take for a woman) carrying a load (looks like bundle of kindling, maybe more) across her back through a winter landscape. The interruption in the bank of trees in the distance, precisely aligned with her position in the foreground, suggests that may be her path rather than to arrive at home at the house at right but either way this feels like a portrait of a place and rural life defined by the