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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 297535, member: 5833&quot;]That is an observation I was going to make.&nbsp; The whole thing has a dream-like quality for me.&nbsp; A bright sun, mountains in the background, a lake with a little island, which has a big tree.&nbsp; A steepled white church, little boats fishing on the lake.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also reminiscent of the sort of scenes I &amp; others in second grade tended to paint/draw in our occasional art classes: a bright sun; fluffy clouds; rolling green land with a road leading into the distance; a red brick house with smoke coming out of the chimney.&nbsp; For the ambitious, a happy traditional family.&nbsp; An anglo-european US 7 year old&#039;s idyll.</p><p><br /></p><p>And what exactly is the transaction taking place?&nbsp; The woman on the right is selling fresh fish from a basket, her head humbly bowed.&nbsp; Is she also offering tame birds?&nbsp; Are the other figures a well-to-do woman, her half grown daughter in striped stockings who would like to have a bird, &amp; a younger brother?</p><p><br /></p><p>And yet, both women have their hair tied in a scarf &amp; the middle figure clearly has bare legs.&nbsp; Are both of the tall figures with head scarves local residents, one selling fish, the other, birds.&nbsp; Does the smaller size of the female figure, whose dress does not suggest patches, whose legs clearly have stockings, indicate her socioeconomic otherness &amp; how she is viewed by the village women?</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are the little touches, such as the cluster of red flowers in front of the dove on the ground.&nbsp; I&#039;m liking this more &amp; more, but have no clue where &amp; when it was painted.&nbsp; The style of the hat may be a clue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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